Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests

Stonehenge may have been first erected in Wales, evidence suggests | UK news | The Guardian

Evidence of quarrying for Stonehenge’s bluestones is among the dramatic discoveries leading archaeologists to theorise that England’s greatest prehistoric monument may have first been erected in Wales. It has long been known that the bluestones that form Stonehenge’s inner horseshoe came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, around 140 miles from Salisbury Plain. Now archaeologists have discovered a series of recesses in the rocky outcrops of Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, to the north of those hills, that match Stonehenge’s bluestones in size and shape. They have also found similar stones that the prehistoric builders extracted but left behind, and “a loading bay” from where the huge stones could be dragged away. Carbonised hazelnut shells and charcoal from the quarry workers’ campfires have been radiocarbon-dated to reveal when the stones would have been extracted.

Prof Mike Parker Pearson, director of the project and professor of British later prehistory at University College London (UCL), said the finds were “amazing”. “We have dates of around 3400 BC for Craig Rhos-y-felin and 3200 BC for Carn Goedog, which is intriguing because the bluestones didn’t get put up at Stonehenge until around 2900 BC,” he said. “It could have taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to get them to Stonehenge, but that’s pretty improbable in my view. It’s more likely that the stones were first used in a local monument, somewhere near the quarries, that was then dismantled and dragged off to Wiltshire.”

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Stonehenge Bluestones Pyrometamorphism Reported to
Preseli Hills area UK Nursery and Pre-schools in 1974

In 1961 during a Stonehenge UK visit, Drums Elementary School kindergartener, Garry Denke of Butler Township, Pa discovered Stonehenge Bluestones are pyrometamorphic altered by High-heat Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Period, Namurian Age, anthracite (Coal Measures) burn above 1200 °C, possibly made in ancient Pembrokeshire Coalfield carbon cave dwellings where in 1974, whilst backpacking from Stonehenge to Preseli Hills, the same Garry Denke, and Ralph Ferdinand of Hazle Township, Pa students of UK geology discovered ancient Pembrokeshire Coalfield prehistoric tools, Bluestone wedges, and Coal rank anthracite digging activity; and

In 1961 during a Stonehenge UK visit, Drums Elementary School kindergartener, Garry Denke of Butler Township discovered Stonehenge Bluestones are pyrometamorphic altered by High-heat Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Period, Westphalian Age, bituminous (Coal Measures) burn above 1100 °C, possibly made in ancient South Wales Coalfield carbon cave dwellings where in 1974, whilst backpacking from Stonehenge to Preseli Hills, the same Garry Denke, and Ralph Ferdinand of Hazle Township, Pa students of UK geology discovered ancient South Wales Coalfield prehistoric tools, Bluestone wedges, and Coal rank bituminous digging activity; and

In 1961 during a Stonehenge UK visit, Drums Elementary School kindergartener Garry Denke of Butler Township discovered Stonehenge Bluestones are pyrometamorphic altered by High-heat Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Period, Stephanian Age, sub-bituminous (Coal Measures) burn above 1000 °C, possibly made in ancient South Wales Coalfield carbon cave dwellings where in 1974, whilst backpacking from Stonehenge to Preseli Hills, the same Garry Denke, and Ralph Ferdinand of Hazle Township, Pa students of UK geology discovered ancient Bristol (Dean) Coalfield prehistoric tools, Bluestone wedges, and Coal rank sub-bituminous digging activity.

In 1974 after Stonehenge Free Festival coring, Garry Denke and Ralph Ferdinand reported their findings to Preseli Hills area UK Nursery and Pre-school Kindergarteners there on field trips, that neither a Northern land nor Southern water route of Bluestones pyrometamorphism was possible, Rather, post Ice Age Coalfield carbon cave dwellers quarried Shoring Pillars for their homes, the route East through Pembrokeshire, South Wales, and Bristol (Dean) Coalfields carbon caves to Salisbury Plain, where countless digs proved their surface fossil fuel trend ended. Shoring Pillars, durable in High-heat anthracite, bituminous, and sub-bituminous Coal ranks. Most precious.

How did two-ton Preseli bluestones get to Stonehenge? | Tivyside Advertiser

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Simply follow H - G - F - E - D - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 to Salisbury Plain
for Stonehenge Pyrometamorphic Bluestones "Shoring Pillars" route.

We packed 23 - 22 - 21 - 20 - D - E - F - G - H to the Quarries.

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