5th Feb.: Stonehenge Up Close
I’m a member of English Heritage (or Historic England, whatever it is now called*) and I noticed amongst Member Events “Stonehenge Up Close” at 07:30...
Category: Stonehenge
In school ancient history was my favourite subject but it counted as “humanities” and you had to do it alongside foreign languages which I was bad at, so I studied physics because it was easy and became a scientist. So I’ve always been interested in archeology, however recently reading about Stonehenge has left me disappointed at how unscientific some of the research seems to be.
25th Feb: BBC’s Stonehenge – fake news!
The other night (24th Feb) the BBC repeated the programme “Stonehenge: The lost Circle Revealed”. First broadcast in 2021 their description on iPlayer says “In...
Moving the Bluestones by Sea
Introduction: Before I visited Stonehenge I explored the English Heritage Stonehenge website. The map showing the route by which the “Bluestones” might have been brought...
Bluestone Transport
So how did the so called “Bluestones*” get to Stonehenge from the Preseli Mountains? Depending on whether you think that the “bluestone phase” of the...
Bluestones and Ice
So, like so many people, since visiting Stonehenge “up close” I’ve been intrigued by the west Wales source of the so called Stonehenge “Blue Stones”....
3rd April: Stonehenge Thoughts
Since seeing Stonehenge “close-up” I’ve been thinking about the transport of the so called “bluestones” from West Wales to Salisbury Plain. This is a summary...