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Can I suggest that this site has the wrong label attached to it? I know that our old friends Darvill and Wainwright want it to be an "ancient quarry" and claim that this is where the Stonehenge bluestones came from. But that is fantasy. There is no sign that Carn Meini was "quarried" any more than any of the other tors in the area -- they have all had stone taken from them, mostly in modern times, for buildings and gate posts etc. In any case, the bluestones at Stonehenge came from at least 7 different localities -- Olwen Williams-Thorpe and her colleagues showed that more than 10 years ago. The largest number of spotted dolerites seem to have come from Carn Goedog, on the northern flank of the Preseli ridge. They were probably (nothing is certain in life) entrained by over-riding glacier ice, and deposited west of Stonehenge as part of an erratic train.
Suggest the Carn Meini site is re-labelled as "natural rock outcrop"? Or you could label it as the site of the rather crude chambered tomb referred to locally as a sacrificial stone....
More info here:
http://www.brianjohn.f2s.com/bluestones62b.html
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