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'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge Stone Circle England

Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 14 June 2006  Page Views: 14664

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A geology team has contradicted claims that bluestones were dug by Bronze Age man from a west Wales quarry and carried 240 miles to build Stonehenge. In a new twist, Open University geologists say the stones were in fact moved to Salisbury Plain by glaciers.

Recent research in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology suggests the stones were ripped from the ground and moved by glaciers during the Ice Age.

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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Perky on Monday, 23 April 2018
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I don't know how old you people are but the movement of bluestones by Ice age is nothing 'new'. Dr Brian John who has studied Glacier movement in West Wales proposed this theory at least 47 years ago. I confronted his theory then but am inclined to think he is now correct, or at least in part. The whole debate could be finished if each side admit that 90% of the bluestones arrived near Glastonbury and Wiltshire by glacial movement, but a few additional ones were conveyed by humans using boats and sledges.
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Anonymous on Wednesday, 23 September 2009
we need more info and why its there
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Anonymous on Tuesday, 09 September 2008
If you can't disproove it, don't knock it.
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Anonymous on Sunday, 17 December 2006
Notwithstanding the somewhat sceptical comments pasted into this debate, I have now done some more work on this, and have confirmed that glacier ice did extend at least as far as Sedgemoor and the Somerset Levels during the biggest ice expansion of the Pleistocene. That opens up another possibility -- that glacier ice carried the bluestones to near Glastonbury, and that human transport did the rest, with overland haulage to Stonehenge. Some glacial transport, and some human.......That would have a nice symmetry -- one sacred site supplying the stones for the building of another. Further info: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~brianj/bluestone67.html
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by JCAntunes on Sunday, 09 July 2006
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I don't know if you read my opinion about stonehenge in my site.
Anyway, I don't know anything about that Glacier theory, just that the stones could be moved by glaciers.
About that dugout canoe I think that it is a good sugestion to be able to move the stones. And the canoe could be rotate to load the stone inside it and the be rotate again with the stone to transport it!
But how can we know if it was done when stonehenge was constructed or when someone that needed just one stone moved it somewhere else from stonehenge place?
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    Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Herby-derby on Friday, 14 July 2006
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    Hi JC Antunes,
    yes I did read your theories about Stonehenge but I was unable to get the animation to work.
    As I understand it the barrows were burial sites for which I have my own theorie.
    I was looking at stonehenge using google earth, I noticed that there are Barrows dotted all over the Salsbury plain and from a great height they look remarkably like the moons craters.
    It occured to me that the chiefs, kings, may have wanted to be buried like their god-s, keeping in mind that the moon was closer to the earth 4,000+ years ago.
    There is another phenomenon that may have occured at that time, bearing in mind that the Moon was closer to the Earth. Certain times of the month, the gravitational pull of the moon may have (and I state that with tounge in cheek) assisted with the lifting and moving of heavy weights. But I agree with you, winter time would have been the best time to move the stones, using dugouts on land as sledges, the snow could have been built up to afford a ramp, and marker poles placed before winter in order to precisely align the massive blocks in the snow.
    It is a fact that the moons gravitational pull creates a great force on the earth, as it moved away the megaliths would become too heavy and so ended the period of megalith construction.
    There is another unknown; we are aware that the earths magnetic poles reverse, is it possible that there may occur after such an event, a reduction in gravity lasting over generations?
    Would giants be born over this period?
    Okay sounds unlikely, but look at the size of the Dinosaurs.
    Cheers Herby
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by JCAntunes on Friday, 07 July 2006
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Pulling stones over snow its easier because they slip over it!
Just that.
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    Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Herby-derby on Sunday, 09 July 2006
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    Hi JC Antunes, thanks, I don't agree with the Glacier theory, not because it's not possible but I believe that the blue stones could have been a gift from a separate tribe possibly as a marital Dowry. A dugout canoe was found with a bluestone nearby indicating that dugouts were used to transport the stones.
    As far as using rolling logs under the stones. It might work if one had a lovely flat surface to roll them on, (concrete would be best). The answer is much simpler than that, although the reasons for building it in the first place are rather obscure, was it possibly a place of worship? A place for marriage? A place to make Kings? who knows? Perhaps all of the above just like our modern places of worship.
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by expatpete on Monday, 26 June 2006
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Just seen on TV that the National Geographic Channel is showing " The Builders Of Stonehenge " next Monday.
Don"t know what the schedule is in the real world- I am in Thailand- and it may have been on in your area previously .

Pete
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by expatpete on Saturday, 24 June 2006
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Amazing what some academics think up to get a headline!

As Stonehenge is proven to be a site where celestial bodies can be observed and predicted may I respectfully suggest that whoever came up with that theory should be told -

"Get your head out of Uranus and stop publishing a load of old Pollux!!"

:-)

Pete
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Condros on Saturday, 24 June 2006
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I really think some scientists suffer from foot and mouth disease, obviously when all else fails propose the preposterous, I guess next they'll claim the same for Avebury. just waiting on the next glacier !!!!
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by coldrum on Friday, 16 June 2006
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Aliens did it.
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by JCAntunes on Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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The snow will help!
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    Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by Herby-derby on Tuesday, 04 July 2006
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    Hi JC Antunes, I asked a question about your statement, the snow will help, as I didn't tick the box you may not have recieved it, can you explain what you meant? Herby
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by JCAntunes on Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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:)
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by PaulM on Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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The glacier theory has never stacked up - look in other areas affected by glaciation and there are assemblages of a huge range of plucked stones but none in Wiltshire...
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Re: 'New' glacier theory for Stonehenge by PeteG on Wednesday, 14 June 2006
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This story keeps coming around.
Last time it was called 'Burls intelligent glacier theory'.
Where are the scattered bluestones between Wales and Salisbury plain that a glacier would deposit?
There is only Bolls barrow that has a fragment of blustone within it, no other monuments have bluestone.
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