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Stonehenge and its Environs

The bluestone debate

mountainman M
mountainman Dec 15, 2008 16:25:23
Replying to tiompan

"The recumbent at Old Keig could be an erratic but if it is, it had been quarried before glaciation and would therefore be a unique example of Paleolithic masonry ."

Sorry -- not with you on that one. Kindly explain.

T tiompan
tiompan Dec 15, 2008 16:37:19
Replying to mountainman

mountainman wrote:
"The recumbent at Old Keig could be an erratic but if it is, it had been quarried before glaciation and would therefore be a unique example of Paleolithic masonry ."

Sorry -- not with you on that one. Kindly explain.

The recumbent was quarried . If it was an erratic too then the quarying would have had to have been pre Holocene and therefore before any evidence of human habitation/quarrying in that area .

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