Posted on 09/19/2025 12:08:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Past theories held that a long-debated stone, known as the "Newall boulder," had been moved by glacial ice long before humans ever arrived to construct the iconic monument.
However, new evidence strengthens the case that Neolithic people transported the site's mysterious bluestones, rather than the massive glaciers that covered parts of Earth during the last Ice Age.
Originally discovered during excavations in 1924 by Lt-Col William Hawley, the famous stone was later removed by his assistant, R.S. Newall. The new findings, published in a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, relied on petrographic, geochemical, and imaging analyses to identify the Newall boulder as a match for rhyolite found at Craig Rhos-y-Felin in north Pembrokeshire.
This refutes long-held ideas about the stone having been an erratic, which refers to when stones—and sometimes very large ones—are removed from their original geological context and carried over sometimes surprising distances. Although this process is most often associated with the glacial transportation of geologic materials, stones can also be moved by other means, including powerful tsunamis and even being carried by animals...
Recent geochemical and petrographic tests, which include X-ray fluorescence and automated SEM-EDS imaging, revealed striking mineralogical "fingerprints" that include evidence of minerals such as stilpnomelane and titanite, whose precise alignment supports the correlation between the Newall boulder and its suspected site of origin.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...
Columns of foliated rhyolite at Craig Rhos-y-Felin, north Pembrokeshire, England, which the recent study identifies as the likely origin point of the "Newall boulder".Image Credit: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105303
Bkmk
‘Hunter-Gatherers’ strike again.
Offhand I’d say we can ruled out “carried by animals” but what the heck do I know...
Rule out. Sheesh.
The oral tradition is that they were levitated into place along the lei lines using magnetism like a mag-lev train. If we assume the earth was the same now as it was then, it doesn’t make sense. If the earth’s magnetic fields were stronger then, that explanation is possible.
Definitely!
In before Clark Griswold knocks it over.
I’m just glad they’re stuck in that traffic circle.
I have been reading for a couple of years that the blue stones were transported to the stonehenge by people rather by glaciers.
The new thing here looks to be the tools they used to confirm the origins of the stone.
Yup, the quarried-and-transported model has everything going for it, and has gained a lot of ground. Eventually the old fossils who advocate for glacial erratics will die off. Likewise the ninny idea that Stonehenge was erected about 120 years ago.
It was! That was the original V2 launch complex.
I thought everyone knew that Merlin built Stonehenge.
I had no idea V2s were being launched 120 years ago.
Hurry up!! 🤣🤣🤣
[‘Hunter-Gatherers’ strike again.]
Hunter-Gatherer-Schleppers.
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