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The top part of the broken and fallen ‘fat’ upright from the central Trilithon 3 — it lays across the Altar Stone. Much of the graffiti on the top has worn away. Can just make out:ƗANE FLEMƗNG 1747
I suspect the upper case letter I with the stroke through it would be the Latin form.
Long been fascinated by these carvings. I think this stone will be the Rosetta Stone of Stonehenge. Seen with other original markings on 59a and the back of 54. There’s definitely method in the carvers’ madness.
Poor crows, jackdaws, or rooks. Been living here for generations upon generations; going back over a thousand years. Now fenced off. Lintel 151, Trilithon One, inner face.
Evicted after 4,500 years.
TIL about Japanese Dogū ceramic figures. Roughly same age as the sarsens of #Stonehenge. And Jōmon flame pottery, about the same age as the beginning of Stonehenge.
Via an exhibition at the Stonehenge visitor centre comparing British and Japanese Neolithic.
Often a case for pareidolia. The oval shape on the reverse of one of the uprights Stone 52 in Trilithon One is many things to many people.
Here are close ups without skins of colour, mould, lichen, most to get in the way.
The fingerprinting of the sarsens of Stonehenge is fascinating. Though it took nearly three years and was a year late.
Seems that most of them are of the same type and probably from the same area. Even the Heel Stone! Which, as it is undressed and there’s a pit close by that it could have been pulled from, is surprising. As well, I thought there were at least two types of sarsen, orange and purple. But this seems to be unimportant — now.
Again, Brian John picks apart the ‘Durrington Shafts’ and points out that even the authors think that the northern arc is likely natural.
It pisses me off so much that the Stonehenge area has become so full of big junk science. It’s hard to get to the small truths.
Some of these holes (none are shafts) could well be sarsen extraction pits, which is far more important and has been ignored in this recent paper.
Aberystwyth University did some computer simulations of the last ice age.
I couldn’t get the flv files to play nice nor the kmls so converted and uploaded to Youtube.
Barney Harris has worked out the man-hours needed to craft the stones. Fabulous stuff. I see that it is the lintels that took the longest. I hadn’t thought of that.
They have six sides to dress where the trilithon’s uprights have a back that is left rough the buried side that wouldn’t have had much attention, though the inside face would be polished smooth, the two walls wouldn’t, as they show lots or remaining working lines. Continue reading “How long to build Stonehenge?”
There is a 100-year-old, neverending question of was it: Neolithic man or glaciers who moved the bluestones from West Wales to Wiltshire. Continue reading “Bluestones. Glacier or man?”
