Re: The bluestone debate | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

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tiompan Mar 8, 2017 07:58:09

Replying to jimthewanderer

jimthewanderer wrote:

While there has been a passage of some time, the recent findings of Mike Parker Pearson at some of the bluestone Quarries in the preseli's claim to have located almost down to the sockets where certain bluestones where quarried out of the rock face.

A great job has been done in provenancing the source of the bluestones , but some might argue , with some justification , that pinpointing the source is not the same as proving that it was the site where the stones were quarried . The evidence for actual quarrying is not good enough to change the minds of those who believe they bluestones may have been transported by glacial action . Stones have been used in the area for thousands of years but finding the evidence for the quarrying of individual stones is almost impossible . And of course they may not have been quarried or moved by glacial action as there are plenty just lying around ready to be moved . There is one stone at Pont Saeson which MPP claims was physically removed from the source and readied for transport but the quarrying aspect is still very difficult to prove .

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moss Mar 8, 2017 08:32:42

Replying to jimthewanderer

jimthewanderer wrote:

While there has been a passage of some time, the recent findings of Mike Parker Pearson at some of the bluestone Quarries in the preseli's claim to have located almost down to the sockets where certain bluestones where quarried out of the rock face.

A link to the claim and excavation, though I cannot find any info on the idea that it was a Welsh stone circle that was hauled to Stonehenge, which is a somewhat intriguing idea. But all these things are ongoing.....

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/div-classtitlecraig-rhos-y-felin-a-welsh-bluestone-megalith-quarry-for-stonehengediv/D1E66A287D494205D22881CBF1F6DDE8/core-reader

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Littlestone Mar 8, 2017 18:23:52

Replying to jimthewanderer

jimthewanderer wrote:

While there has been a passage of some time, the recent findings of Mike Parker Pearson at some of the bluestone Quarries in the preseli's claim to have located almost down to the sockets where certain bluestones where quarried out of the rock face.

Hello jim.

Almost certainly, with the further passage of time, it’ll be shown conclusively how the Bluestones got to Stonehenge. The consensus, however, does seem to be moving closer and closer to the human transportation premise.