The rocks were traced to the Pont Saeson area
Posted on 12/20/2011 6:33:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Experts say they have confirmed for the first time the precise origin of some of the rocks at Stonehenge.
It has long been suspected that rhyolites from the northern Preseli Hills helped build the monument.
But research by National Museum Wales and Leicester University has identified their source to within 70m (230ft) of Craig Rhos-y-felin, near Pont Saeson.
The museum's Dr Richard Bevins said the find would help experts work out how the stones were moved to Wiltshire.
For nine months Dr Bevins, keeper of geology at National Museum Wales, and Dr Rob Ixer of Leicester University collected and identified samples from rock outcrops in Pembrokeshire to try to find the origins of rhyolite debitage rocks that can be found at Stonehenge.
By detailing the mineral content and the textural relationships within the rock, a process known as petrography, they found that 99% of the samples could be matched to rocks found in this particular set of outcrops.
Rhyolitic rocks at Rhos-y-felin, between Ffynnon-groes (Crosswell) and Brynberian, differ from all others in south Wales, they said, which helps locate almost all of Stonehenge's rhyolites to within hundreds of square metres.
Within that area, the rocks differ on a scale of metres or tens of metres, allowing Dr Bevins and Dr Ixer to match some Stonehenge rock samples even more precisely to a point at the extreme north-eastern end of Rhos-y-felin.
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The rocks were traced to the Pont Saeson area
I don't think we've seen the last of them either.
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this is really a remarkable amount of effort and distance to move those rocks in the bronze age.
From the article: “In April 2000 a National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund plan was launched to replicate the 240-mile (386 km) journey of a giant stone from west Wales to Salisbury Plain, by land and sea.
The millennium bluestone project, which tried to use only muscle power and the technology of the ancients, ended in disaster when the stone sank in Milford Haven estuary.”
Pembroke. Been there. Delivered North Sea crude oil.
Nice castle. Have brochures buried in mess of papers somewhere:)
The Nephilim.
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of them either.
Guessing you have read Sitchin’s books “The 12 th. planet” and the rest of his books, interesting stuff
http://www.khouse.org/6640_cat/biblestudy/
Did Dinosaurs Build Stonehenge?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEyvS31Kq8
Must have been aliens!
From the article: “In April 2000 a National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund plan was launched to replicate the 240-mile (386 km) journey of a giant stone from west Wales to Salisbury Plain, by land and sea.
The millennium bluestone project, which tried to use only muscle power and the technology of the ancients, ended in disaster when the stone sank in Milford Haven estuary.”
...and so with the failure of modern man to transport the rocks without sinking one into a river, an alternate theory of ‘they must’ve been transported here by glacier’ was born;)
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