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Discovery of Bluestone at Stonehenge Cursus - possible setting for Lost Monument Wiltshire

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 31 August 2006  Page Views: 4731

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Last week a sizeable fragment of what is presumed to be spotted dolerite, or bluestone from the Preseli Mountains in south Wales, was discovered in the southwestern quadrant of Woodhenge. At almost exactly the same time, a member of the archaeological team under the direction of Colin Richards discovered another much smaller piece in a test pit in a field close to the western end of the Cursus.

Colin’s team are looking for evidence of a lost bluestone monument, whose existence was first postulated by Wiltshire archaeologist J F S Stone in 1947, because he had excavated an area near the Cursus and discovered a scatter of bluestone fragments with a marked concentration near the Cursus itself, strongly suggesting that a monument had once stood there that had later been taken away to Stonehenge.

More: Eternal Idol, reporting from the 2006 excavations.
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Re: Discovery of Bluestone at Stonehenge Cursus - possible setting for Lost Monument by aknifethatfellfromthesky on Thursday, 13 August 2009
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obviously there is nothing here to confirm the size of the 'fragments' but the very word 'fragment' suggests a cautious approach should be taken....maybe these fragments are just that, welsh dolerite carried by glaciers or maybe they are the left over from actually working the blue stone monoliths that are already on site at stonehenge and environs??

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Re: Discovery of Bluestone at Stonehenge Cursus - possible setting for Lost Monument by mountainman on Sunday, 31 August 2008
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An early bluestone monument?

Sounds as if even more fragments have been found since 2006 in these "old" sites -- which means there was bluestone around on Salisbury Plain maybe a thousand years before the earliest stone settings at Stonehenge. That tends to confirm the "glacial transport" theory -- but it seems to me entirely unnecessary to think about an "early bluestone monument" which was later moved to Stonehenge. I may be wrong, but I suspect that archaeologists are wasting their time on this one......
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Re: by mishkin on Friday, 01 September 2006
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Fascinating account, it must be very exciting to find pieces of "evidence" to substantiate the fact that the bluestones look like they were brought from Wales and not the glaciation theory.
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