To add to Chance’s pic of the wall with the ten stones, there’s another six in Orchard farms drive wall, so sixteen in all. I don’t know is these stones have been noted before but no-one i knew had noticed them, maybe due to the two dogs that come racing to the gate if you go anywhere near ? Anyway my mate easily tamed them whilst i took the pics.
The possible outlier first pointed out to me by Paul Blades (Bladup). The circle is visible in the distance.
The “outlier” as described by Bladup at roughly 220 degrees SSW of the circle.
Like finding a needle in a haystack. !
This pic may help as the TMA marker is so far off, and it’s an absolute sea of shoulder high bracken !
A great viewing platform, shame about the erosion. Mam Tor to the right in the distance.
The slight rise in the ground from the nettles extreme left centre to the conifers at the top of the pic is one bank of the Stonehenge avenue.
How cool is that. ?
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
Standing alongside the Avon. BSH is over the bridge and to the left behind the trees.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
A stonehead for scale.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
Showing how close the henge is to the river Avon, the gate leads to it’s bank via a small bridge. You really could lose whole days sitting at this location.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for leading us to the site.
Looking across the excavated area of Bluestonehenge.
Credit also to Pete Glastonbury for guiding us to the site.
A panorama taken during my one and only visit to the site. I must get back when time isn’t an issue. So much to see so little time, As always. *Sighs*
This is where the gods split the super tough sarsen with a mere flint point, Or maybe it’s naturally occurring flint within the stone, i dunno. ;)
I showed this pic to a friend who knows far more than myself about local geology, I thought flint only formed in the chalk, Not the sarsen too.
Quite an informative piece of info gleaned from such a nondescript piece of rock. ! ;)
2/9/2012 on our way to The Devils Den via the polisher and the cup marked stone.
Looking quite battered, Close up there’s several areas showing evidence of stone splitting at work.
Harestones down “stone circle” with the quad track, WKLB and Silbury.
The trees in the foreground grow alongside the White Horse Trail. :)
Apologies for pic quality. :)
