Today, I venture to Valley of Stones, at Fyfield Down, by West Woods, Marlborough, in Wiltshire, England. The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England 🪨 🪨 🪨 , known as the Grey Wethers, because of their resemblance to an enormous flock of sheep in bedraggled fleeces 🐑🐑🐑
Fyfield Down is a large chalk grassland with a remarkable, nationally important geological feature: a river of sarsen stones deposited by glacial action. Sarsen stones are large boulders of hard silicified sandstone up to 3.5m across, and stones from this location were used in local Neolithic monuments including Stonehenge, 17 miles south, and the Avebury stone circle, 2 miles to the west.
According to the history books, the 80 x 30 ton sarsen stones used to built Stonehenge, and 100 x 30 ton sarsen stones used to built Avebury stone circle, totalling 5.4 million kilograms, were rolled on logs to their final destination 🤔 Yet, what the books don't mention ... is that the valley was half flooded at the time ⛵
In July 2020, Dr Nash, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Brighton's School of Applied Sciences, published a paper detailing a comparison of sarsen stone geochemical data to 20 possible sites across southern England. This resulted in new evidence as to the real truth behind the sarsen stones' origins. Link to the paper is shown in the video links section below.
Note, that this video focuses purely on the "Sarsen" stones and not the "Bluestones", which are the smaller stones at Stonehenge. These came from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales (where I am from). Although they may not appear blue, they do have a bluish tinge when freshly broken or when wet. They weigh between 2 and 5 tons each.
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26 сен 2024