Stonehenge First Built in Wales, Study Claims

discovery.com ^ | Rossella Lorenzi

[BenLurkin]

The study, published in the current issue of the journal Antiquity, indicates that two quarries in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, in southwest Wales, are the source of Stonehenge’s bluestones. Carbon dating revealed such stones were dug out at least 500 years before Stonehenge was built — suggesting they were first used in a local monument that was later dismantled and dragged off to England.

The very large standing stones at Stonehenge are sarsen, a local sandstone. The smaller ones, known as bluestones, consist of volcanic and igneous rocks, the most common of which are called dolerite and rhyolite.

Geologists have known since the 1920s that the bluestones were brought to Stonehenge from somewhere in the Preseli Hills, around 140 miles from Stonehenge. But the outcrops of Carn Goedog were only recently identified as the main source of Stonehenge’s dolerite and Craig Rhos-y-felin as the source for the rhyolite bluestones.

The new research focused specifically on the Craig Rhos-y-felin outcrops.

[BenLurkin]

Whales, my eye.

Everybody knows that Stonehenge was built by dinosaurs

[Paladin2]

Not just North of Alliance Neb.

[SpinnerWebb]

I always figured it was a brontosaurus pen.

[prisoner6]

Well yeah, but it wasn’t called Stonehenge. It’s name was some unpronounceable, 49 letter, consonants only “word.”

[wbill]

“One of the dwarves has trodden upon it.”

[Covenantor]

FYI

[sparklite2]

You gotta quit hanging with Carson.

[sparklite2]

That looks like something I built in Fallout 4.

[pepsi_junkie]

There was an old Hagar the Horrible comic strip where he and his sidekick Lucky Eddie were standing in the middle of Stonehenge and Hagar said "Look, this was built to last all of time so that nobody would forget the people who built it" and Lucky Eddie says "Who built it?". Hagar: "Nobody knows"

I wish I'd clipped it.

[henkster]

Is this the guy who came up with the theory?

Because I think he also came up with some theories regarding the Battle of Trafalgar.

[BigEdLB]

Stonehenge, Complete Ballet, Op 41

[Resolute Conservative]

Fred Flintstone?

[Gamecock]

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Rio]

[moose07]

Stone Age ikea .
They just found a better site, so they moved it.
“ Barney! Give us a hand , here! “

[Monkey Face]

Almost as good as “Clams got legs,” sequence!

[Beowulf9]

I wonder if this was a tribal effort or came down from a leader of the group.

If it was a consensus of opinion having to do with their spiritual beliefs or due to a need for safety.

Also, I wonder if they left any buried behind, bones or bodies as it has been thought Stonehenge might be to honor the dead.

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

Thanks, Moosie! The music was pretty good, too.