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Who said these lumps of rock came from wales
how does any one know that any way
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Ssssshh. It's a class 1 'relic'. Second only to 'The Holy Stone of Clonrichert' in the money earning tables.
Francis Pryor made an interesting documentary about the origins of Stonehenge a few years ago, using topographical reconstruction to create a 3D representation of the area around the monument that really changed my perception.
Surrounded my trees and the river Kennet running much closer to the site. It would've been much easier to transport the bluestones from South Wales while the standing stones were brought from a quarry close by. Built over several generations with additional stones erected as the monument grew, it had three distinct building phases and became a centre for ritual for over a thousand years.
Pryor has a theory that the avenue would've been lined with stones that represented the ancestors of people who lived at the time who gives a different context to the mummery introduced by William Stuckley in the 18th century and continued today by ale-quaffing beardies with a sun-fetish.
I hope that idea of building a tunnel and visitor centre is never made since it would destroy the very place it seeks to preserve.
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They were on about this last night on the radio
The same time as we were piling up a few stones
the Eygyptians were building the pyramids
and them big stones never came from wales or were ever
the biggest stones weigh over 30 tons
it was the blue stones that came from wales or were ever they are a mere 6 or 7 tons (ish)
The same time as we were piling up a few stones
the Eygyptians were building the pyramids
and them big stones never came from wales or were ever
the biggest stones weigh over 30 tons
it was the blue stones that came from wales or were ever they are a mere 6 or 7 tons (ish)
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For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain. Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish. In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles. @The Guardian
Let's see if the haggis munchers want this one back an' all.
No the big ones are still local. The Scottish one is one of the 'small' stones.How did you know?
For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain. Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish. In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles. @The Guardian
Let's see if the haggis munchers want this one back an' all.
The six ton alter stone, at the centre of Stonehenge..
The smaller blue stones, they proved, came not only from Wales, but tied it down to an outcrop, even to the actual spot one was taken from.
You have to ask yourself why what is so special about that particular stone and its alignment that they had to in whatever manner transport it from so far away and who went all over britian looking for that particular stone . Ancient mystery that we will never know the answer to . And why are stone circles all over the planet from a time when in theory many places had not been discovered yet
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The idea that places hadn't been discovered, and were therefore empty or filled with savages is a result of only paying attention to European history.
I for one always celebrate Moehanga day.
Moehanga Day: New Zealandâs MÄori mark the day they âdiscoveredâ Britain
The anniversary marks the 1806 visit of Moehanga, from the NgÄpuhi tribe, to Britain
www.theguardian.com
The colour of that particular stone would be important. Certain stones were chosen for their quality and convey a meaning we can only guess at. But transporting such a large lump of rock woul've been a real challenge - going by sea would be the logical answer until you see the kind of boat used in the BronzeAge. I've seen the boat found at Shardlow in Derby Museum, dated around 1500BCE, still holding a lump of sandstone...
...so we know it's the most plausible way of transporting large stones over a long distance, but that kind of craft would never survive a journey by sea and had to be guided along a river. For such a long trip from the far North that means an overland portage to the next river, moving from one to the other, making its way South over many months, even years, until it reached Wiltshire. We know Neolithic people travelled from far and wide for the Winter Solstice ritual but this level of cooperation is an unprecedented discovery that reveals how those scattered tribes would relate to each other in their world.
The granite stones are thought to have been washed with lime to make them gleam white, standing apart from the blue stones which reflected the sky above the monument, so i'd say a red stone was used for the altar because it's the colour of blood. Geo-archaeological evidence tells how the whole area would've been covered in trees, so Stonehenge would be hidden from view until you walked along the avenue up to the stones which would have a powerful impact as they emerged in the clearing.
...so we know it's the most plausible way of transporting large stones over a long distance, but that kind of craft would never survive a journey by sea and had to be guided along a river. For such a long trip from the far North that means an overland portage to the next river, moving from one to the other, making its way South over many months, even years, until it reached Wiltshire. We know Neolithic people travelled from far and wide for the Winter Solstice ritual but this level of cooperation is an unprecedented discovery that reveals how those scattered tribes would relate to each other in their world.
The granite stones are thought to have been washed with lime to make them gleam white, standing apart from the blue stones which reflected the sky above the monument, so i'd say a red stone was used for the altar because it's the colour of blood. Geo-archaeological evidence tells how the whole area would've been covered in trees, so Stonehenge would be hidden from view until you walked along the avenue up to the stones which would have a powerful impact as they emerged in the clearing.
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