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by Digit » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:26 am
You're not the first to misunderstand the original statement Monk, nor mine.
They argument in support of glacial action rests to a large degree on the erratics in the Bristol and Cardiff areas of England and Wales. Nobody, as far as I'm aware, has claimed that glacial action moved anything to Salisbury Plain, only that glacial action moved the stones away from the Presceli Hills.
This does not preclude movement to the Plain by man.
Rather interestingly Monk, sometime ago English heritage, the owners of the site, allowed chemical analysis of 13 Blue Stones, one of which incidentally is green.
The results showed that their were actually 5 different types of stone from 4 different sites, the green stone they added probably came from north Wales.
Now, if you are going to man haul, float, or otherwise transport stones over a distance of some 240 miles, why would you chose so many different sites, especially as only the one site is near suitable water?
Does not this difference suggest the possibilty that the stones were a glacial assemblage?
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt