BRIAN JOHN AND THE STONEHENGE CONSPIRACY
COMMENTARY BY LUCY M WARNER
APRIL 6, 2017


FIRST, ON THE SUBJECT OF BRIAN JOHN (SPENCER) SEE THE FOLLOWING SITES.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/brian-john-spencer
http://brian-angelmountain.blogspot.com/2010/09/where-was-plas-ingli.html
https://www.facebook.com/pg/brianjohnspencrr/about/?ref=page_internal
http://www.brianjohnspencer.com/
http://www.thedolectures.com/brian-john-dispelling-the-stonehenge-myth/#.WObZL2krL5o


ABOVE ALL, DO VIEW THESE THREE VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4c3F9iEaY
http://www.brianjohn.info/enigma12.html

http://www.thedolectures.com/brian-john-dispelling-the-stonehenge-myth/#.WObPrGnyv5o
The Stonehenge Conspiracy
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A reexamination of the theory that the stones at Stonehenge were carried by Neolithic tribesmen from sites far away, including West Wales. It is concluded that this is nothing but a popular myth; that the sarsens were collected locally; and that the bluestones were in all probability carried by glacier ice to the vicinity of Stonehenge. There they were collected up over a wider and wider radius -- and eventually, the builders lost motivation, ran out of energy and ran out of stones. So Stonehenge was really just an aberration or a folly, and it was never finished.

http://www.brianjohn.info/enigma1.html -- JOHN’S THEORY ON THE BUILDING OF STONEHENGE
http://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/ -- STONEHENGE AND THE ICE AGE

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AND FINALLY, GO TO THIS SPECTACULAR UPDATE FROM THE INDEPENDENT ON STONEHENGE AND ITS’ PART IN A “GOLDEN AGE” IN WILTSHIRE. THIS FULL TEXT IS AVAILABLE ON TODAYS’ NEWS BLOG AS A SEPARATE SCIENCE FEATURE. IT’S ALSO RELATIVELY NEW INFORMATION, FROM NOVEMBER OF 2016.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-prehistoric-religious-ceremonial-centre-discovered-archaeologists-a7425346.html.



I AM TRULY RELIEVED AND GRATEFUL THAT BRIAN JOHN DID NOT EVEN MENTION MERLIN NOR FLYING SAUCERS IN HIS STONEHENGE VIDEO AND WRITING. I ALSO FEEL THAT WHAT I SAW HERE IS FULL OF PROBABLY MOSTLY ACCURATE, AND DECIDEDLY FASCINATING, INFORMATION. LOOK AT THE VIDEOS FOR THEIR BEAUTY, IF FOR NO OTHER REASON. ANYTHING THAT GIVES ME A MENTAL LINK WITH CENTURIES AND HUMAN GENERATIONS IN THE PAST THRILLS ME, SO I LOVED IT ALL. THAT LINK WITH THE CONTINUANCE OF LIFE IS ONE OF THE MAIN PILLARS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES MY PERSONAL RELIGION.

VISIT ALL OF SPENCER’S WEBSITES ABOVE, TO SEE THE MANY THINGS THAT HE DOES, AND TO VIEW HIS VIDEOS. HE IS APPARENTLY NOT A SCIENTIST, THOUGH HE IS OBVIOUSLY NOT ONLY A WELL-INFORMED STUDENT OF BRITISH HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY; BUT A WRITER OF NOVELS, A BLOGGER (THOUGH I NOTICE IN HIS BIO THAT OVER THERE IT IS CALLED “VLOGGER”), AN ARTIST, AND MORE, WHO HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE HUFFINGTON POST AND ELSEWHERE. HE’S A PRETTY DARNED FASCINATING MAN, WHO WAS ASKED TO GIVE A SPEECH ON STONEHENGE, THOUGH HE DOESN'T SPECIALIZE IN ARCHAEOLOGY. FOR THAT TALK, GO TO “THEDOLECTURES.COM.” HIS OFFICIAL WEBSITE AND A FACEBOOK SITE ARE NOT TO BE MISSED, EITHER. HIS PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO SHOW AN ENERGETIC AND IMAGINATIVE PERSON WITH ENOUGH HUMILITY TO MAKE HIM CHARMING.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HIS HEROIC AND ROMANTIC HEROINE NAMED MARTHA MORGAN AND HER HOME “PLAS INGLI” IN WALES, GO TO THE ANGEL MOUNTAIN SITE MENTIONED ABOVE. THE STORIES OF HIS PLAS INGLI NOVELS BEGIN IN 1796; AND COMPRISE HIS ANGEL MOUNTAIN SAGA OF EIGHT NOVELS. I WILL WRITE IT ON MY CALENDAR TO ORDER AT LEAST ONE OF THEM FROM THE LIBRARY NEAR MY APARTMENT!

THIS STONEHENGE YOUTUBE VIDEO CALLED “THE STONEHENGE CONSPIRACY,” IS MADE UP OF OLD IMAGES AND IS A HIGHLY OPINIONATED BUT SEEMINGLY WELL STUDIED AND REASONABLE “HISTORY” OF THE MONUMENT, SO IT MAY BE MORE ACCURATE IN SOME WAYS THAN SOME CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL OPINIONS, OR AT LEAST ADD USEFUL INFORMATION. HE CERTAINLY SEEMS TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE STONES, LOCALITY AND PEOPLES OF THE TIME, AND GIVES A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT. I SAY IT IS “OPINIONATED,” BECAUSE HIS VIEWS ARE IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THE STANDARD SCIENTIFIC BELIEFS AND IS BOLDLY STATED. HE DID NOT, HOWEVER, ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS, SO I STILL THINK OLDER ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE HIGHLY CREDITABLE ALSO. HIS LECTURE ON THIS SUBJECT AT IS EXCELLENT, HOWEVER, AND HIS ARGUMENTS ARE REASONABLE TO ME.

AMONG THE FOLLOWING ARE TWO REALLY BEAUTIFUL VIDEOS AND NARRATIVES DETAILING HIS VIEWS, BY BRIAN JOHN, (BORN BRIAN JOHN SPENCER). HE IS CLEARLY DEEPLY INTO BRITISH HISTORY, IS AN IRISH “VLOGGER,” AND AN ARTIST, WHO KNOWS MORE THAN A LITTLE ABOUT GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY; AND UNLESS I AM JUST IN LOVE WITH HIM, HE IS THE KIND OF PERSON WHO POKES HIS NOSE INTO MANY SUBJECTS – A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART. I DO LOVE PEOPLE WHO ARE UNASHAMEDLY INTERESTED IN ALMOST EVERYTHING.

JOHN SEEMS TO BE A WELL-READ SCHOLAR AND HOBBYIST ON STONEHENGE, AT LEAST. HE UNDOUBTEDLY HAS SCHOLARLY SOURCES FOR HIS STONEHENGE WRITINGS, BUT I COULDN’T FIND WHERE HE STATED THOSE. HIS ARGUMENT THAT THOSE STONE AGE PEOPLE JUST COULDN’T HAVE MOVED AND MANIPULATED THE STONES BY SIMPLY DRAGGING THEM ON ROLLERS, HOWEVER, (MAINLY THE MOVING OF THE STONES FROM SOME PRETTY DISTANT LOCATIONS) IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE FACT THAT AVEBURY AND COUNTLESS OTHER MEGALITHIC -- “LARGE STONE” – PREHISTORIC SITES FROM THE NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES CONTAIN HUGE STONES, ALL VERY HEAVY, THOUGH NOT AS BEAUTIFULLY TOOLED AND SHAPED AS THOSE AT STONEHENGE. LIKE IT OR NOT, THEY WERE MOVED TO THEIR SITES, AND MERLIN DIDN’T DO IT.

MONUMENTS OF THAT ROUGHER SORT ARE LOCATED ACROSS WESTERN EUROPE, INCLUDING IRELAND, THE WHOLE EXTENT OF THE BRITISH ISLES, AND DOWN TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, AND EVEN IF GLACIERS DID BRING THEM INTO A MORE CONVENIENT LOCATION, THEY STILL HAVE TO BE DRAGGED BY HAND. THE THEORY IS SLAVE LABOR, BUT IT COULD ALSO HAVE BEEN A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY GIVING OF THEIR LABOR TO THEIR DEITY. AT ANY RATE, IT WOULD REQUIRE A GREAT MANY WILLING BODIES. ON THAT WHOLE SUBJECT OF MOVING FOUR TON STONES, SEE: http://old.world-mysteries.com/gw_gpipes.htm, “A NEW AND UNIQUE THEORY ON THE MOVEMENT OF HEAVY STONES,” BY GORDON PIPES. I DON’T THINK PIPES’ METHOD IS UNIQUE IN RELATION TO STONEHENGE, BECAUSE I HAVE AN NPR VIDEO ON A CRIB AND LEVER METHOD OF MOVING SUCH STONES, IN WHICH A GROUP OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND ABOUT 30 AVID VOLUNTEERS MOVED THE STONES AND DROPPED THEM INTO A HOLE MADE TO FIT. IT WORKED AFTER THE SECOND EFFORT.

THE MEGALITHIC PHENOMENON, INCLUDING THAT SPECIALIZED CASE, STONEHENGE, FRANKLY LOOKS TO ME TO BE THE SIGN OF A WIDESPREAD RELIGIOUS PATTERN OF A GENERALIZED SORT. PEOPLE ARE VERY SLOW TO GIVE UP TRADITIONAL VIEWS, AND RELIGIONS ARE EVEN MORE SO. RELIGIONS OF THE NEOLITHIC USUALLY HAD A COMBINATION OF AN EARTH MOTHER AND A SKY GOD WHO THROUGH THEIR MUTUAL EFFORTS, WELL, YOU KNOW, MADE THE EARTH FERTILE FOR THEIR WHEAT, BARLEY ETC. TO GROW. A LARGE STONE STICKING UP OUT OF THE GROUND LOOKS A GREAT DEAL LIKE A PHALLUS TO ME. ONE INTERESTING ARTICLE STATED THAT THE PLOW MAY HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY USED IN AN EARTH WORSHIP RITUAL. I THINK THAT’S NO MORE LIKELY THAN THE IDEA THAT THEY HAD SOME REAL KNOWLEDGE OF PLANT GROWTH, THOUGH, AND WERE EMPLOYING IT. I THINK IT WAS USED TO BREAK UP THE GROUND TO RECEIVE AND SOAK UP RAIN, AND ENABLE THE GROWTH OF TENDER ROOTS, AS IT IS TODAY, A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OVER HOES AND DIBBLE STICKS.

IT WOULD SURPRISE ME GREATLY IF THE SIZABLE NUMBER OF CULTURAL GROUPS WHICH PROBABLY EXISTED IN EUROPE AROUND 5000 BP WOULD ALL BE OF EXACTLY THE SAME RELIGION; BUT AS IN THE CASE OF MODERN CHURCHES, THE DIFFERENT FAITHS ALL USE A VERY DISTINCTIVE AND SIMILAR TYPE OF STRUCTURE WITH RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS ON THEM. I CAN ALMOST ALWAYS TELL A HOUSE OF WORSHIP JUST BY LOOKING AT IT WHEN I’M OUT ON THE ROAD DRIVING, AND WITHOUT THE NEED OF A SIGN SAYING WHAT IT IS.

MEGALITHIC STRUCTURES ARE ALL EXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL, LIKE WISE OLD WOMEN. IF YOU ARE GOING TO GO TO LONDON, I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE A DAY TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE AS WELL, BECAUSE GETTING GOOD PRICES ON WOOL SWEATERS IN LONDON ISN’T NEARLY AS VALUABLE TO THE INNER MIND AS EXPERIENCING SOMETHING PROFOUND. A TRIP TO STONEHENGE OR TO AVEBURY ARE DOABLE IN ONE DAY. WHILE YOU’RE AT IT GO TO BATH AND SEE THE SPOT WHERE ALL OF JANE AUSTEN’S HEROINES WENT FOR HOLIDAY. WHEN I TOOK MY ONE AND ONLY TINY LITTLE TEN DAY TRIP TO ENGLAND IN THE 1980S, I VISITED STONEHENGE AND AVEBURY, AND BOTH ARE SPECTACULAR IN THEIR SCOPE AND MAJESTY. THE FEELING THEY GAVE ME WAS DEFINITELY ONE OF AWE AND A SORT OF WORSHIP. I HAVE A 6,000 YEAR-OLD NATIVE AMERICAN GRINDSTONE WHICH MY FATHER DUG UP IN HIS GARDEN IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, AND TOUCHING IT GIVES ME THE SAME FEELING. THAT GRINDSTONE IS ONE OF THE THINGS WHICH I BROUGHT WITH ME FROM THE FAMILY HOME IN THOMASVILLE WHEN I MOVED HERE TO JACKSONVILLE.

IN STONE AGE TERMS, WILTSHIRE WAS CLEARLY A WEALTHY AND POPULOUS AREA IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE, DUE TO A PROSPEROUS TRADE WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA, ALMOST CERTAINLY INCLUDING CYPRUS. THOSE THINGS TOGETHER IMPLY A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OR COUNCIL, JUST TO EXECUTE THEIR ACTIVITIES. THE BRITONS, MINED TIN AND EXPORTED IT, WHICH IS USED WITH COPPER TO MAKE BRONZE. GOOGLE -- THAT GREAT SPHINX OF TODAY -- SAYS THAT THE ORIGINAL WORDS FOR COPPER IS LATIN, “CYPRUS AES” -- AND IT TRANSLATES AS “CYPRUS METAL.” ANOTHER CLUE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN TRADE ROUTE IS THE FACT THAT THE GRAVES IN WILTSHIRE WERE FOUND TO HAVE EXPENSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL GRAVE GOODS FROM THAT “CROSSROAD OF NATIONS,” THE MEDITERRANEAN, AS WELL. THERE WERE OCEAN GOING VESSELS IN THAT TIME PERIOD, AT LEAST WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN, THE IMAGES OF WHICH ARE SHOWN ON THE FAMOUS MINOAN MOSAICS OF CRETE, AND I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT PEOPLE TRAVELED BACK AND FORTH BY THAT MEANS. JUST AS TODAY, NOT ALL PREHISTORIC PEOPLE WERE ALIKE. SOME WERE WEALTHY AND KNOWLEDGEABLE AND OTHERS WERE HUMBLE PEASANTS, JUST AS IN MODERN TIMES. THE WILTSHIRE RESIDENTS WERE OF THE RELATIVELY PRIVILEGED SORT.

ON THE PROSPEROUS BRONZE TRADE, THERE ARE KNOWN QUARRY SITES IN BRITAIN FOR BOTH TIN AND STONE TOOL MATERIALS SUCH AS FLINT, SO ALL OF THOSE MEGALITHIC STONES WERE NOT MERELY “FOUND” IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS JOHN ASSERTS, I DON’T BELIEVE, AFTER BEING DROPPED THERE BY RETREATING GLACIERS. YES, THAT DOES HAPPEN, BUT THERE ARE TOO MANY LOCATIONS INVOLVING THE USE OF MEGALITHS (THOUSANDS) TO BE EXPLAINED BY WHAT HAD TO HAVE HAPPENED RELATIVELY RARELY. I THINK SOMEBODY BROUGHT THEM FROM WALES. TO CORROBORATE THAT VIEW, SEE THIS FASCINATING NEWS STORY ON BRONZE AGE WESSEX AS A GOLDEN AGE AT: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-prehistoric-religious-ceremonial-centre-discovered-archaeologists-a7425346.html.

I ALSO DON’T AGREE WITH JOHN THAT THE “WILTSHIREANS” ESPECIALLY AT WESSEX HAD TOO SMALL A POPULATION AND TOO LITTLE WEALTH AND SOPHISTICATION, TO ENABLE THEM TO GET THOSE STONES MOVED TO THE STONEHENGE SITE. IN FACT, MANY ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY IT WAS AN EXTREMELY PROSPEROUS AREA WITH ENOUGH SOCIAL ORGANIZATION TO BUILD STONE TOMBS AND MONUMENTS. IN THIS CONTEXT, READ THE NOVEMBER 2016 NEWS ARTICLE ABOVE ON THE STONEHENGE AREA AS A PREHISTORIC RELIGIOUS CEREMONIAL CENTER.

BESIDES, THERE ARE SOME THOUSANDS OF MEGALITHIC STRUCTURES OF SEVERAL KINDS IN THE BRITISH ISLES ALONE, AND THE PEOPLE IN THOSE LOCATIONS MANAGED TO BUILD THEIRS. BRITAIN WAS IN TOUCH WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN VIA SHIP, IN THE FORM OF ONE TRADE ROUTE AT LEAST, AND THERE WAS PERHAPS A MUCH MORE EXTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL INTERCHANGE OF OTHER KINDS. BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS, KNOWN TO BE FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA, HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE WILTSHIRE AND CORNWALL AREAS. MERCHANT CONTACTS PROBABLY BROUGHT OTHER CONNECTIONS AS WELL SUCH AS NEW INFORMATION. I DON’T THINK IT’S FAR-FETCHED TO SAY THAT THE NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES WERE A SORT OF RENAISSANCE IN WHICH KNOWLEDGE AND OTHER CULTURAL ELEMENTS WERE EXCHANGED AND SPREAD OUTWARD TO SURROUNDING REGIONS.

AVEBURY AND CARNAC ARE BOTH CONSIDERABLY LARGER MEGALITHIC SITES THAN STONEHENGE, BUT THE STONES THERE ARE NOT SO WELL SHAPED AS ARE THE STONES AT STONEHENGE. AVEBURY AND THE OTHER SITES HAVE STONES THAT MORE CLOSELY RESEMBLE COMMON BOULDERS TO BE FOUND IN THE FIELDS. I BELIEVE STONEHENGE WAS PROBABLY A SACRED SITE, AND PERHAPS IN FACT AN “OBSERVATORY” AS GERALD S. HAWKINS CLAIMED IN HIS 1966 BOOK “STONEHENGE DECODED,” BECAUSE HE DID SHOW THAT GAPS BETWEEN SOME OF THE TRILITHONS FORM FRAMES, SO TO SPEAK, FOR THE RISING AND LATERAL MONTHLY MOVEMENTS OF THE SUN AND MOON. SOME SAY THAT HAWKINS’ WORK WASN’T ACCURATE ENOUGH TO HAVE REACHED THE CONCLUSIONS THAT HE DID, OR TO BE USED AS A CALENDAR. IT WAS STILL A VERY INTERESTING IDEA, AND HIS BOOK WAS VERY READABLE, UNLIKE MANY THINGS THAT PHYSICISTS AND OTHER SCIENTISTS WRITE. THE KEY IS TO USE ABSOLUTELY NO JARGON UNLESS IT’S NECESSARY, AND TO EXPLAIN IT WHEN WE DO.

THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ARE, WHAT WAS THE FUNCTION OF STONEHENGE, AND HOW THE HECK DID THEY GET THOSE STONES UP THERE! WHATEVER IT’S FUNCTION, IT WAS, CLEARLY, A STRIKING MONUMENT WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN VIEWED WITH GREAT PRIDE BY THOSE BRITONS, I HAVE NO DOUBT, NOT UNLIKE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS TO US, OR BETTER STILL, MOUNT RUSHMORE. WE DO KNOW THAT THERE WERE INTERNATIONAL TRADING AND MINING ACTIVITIES INVOLVING BRITAIN, AND PROBABLY SCHOLARLY CONTACT AND INTERMARRIAGE WITH OUTSIDERS; SO, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE ALMOST CERTAINLY GOING BACK AND FORTH BY SHIP AND BY FOOT. DIPLOMATS, PERHAPS? ARCHITECTS WHO KNEW HOW TO BUILD MONUMENTAL WORKS WITH STONE? INDEED, WHY NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN, AFTER THEY REACH ADULTHOOD, TO THE MEDITERRANEAN FOR A GRAND WORLD TOUR, SUCH AS WE DO TODAY (IF WE HAPPEN TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY)? I THINK WESSEX WAS MOST LIKELY A WELL-KNOWN PLACE, POSSIBLY A RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGE SITE, AND CERTAINLY NOT A PRIMITIVE BACKWATER.

RELATED ARTICLE, SEE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology, “Revealed: Early Bronze Age carvings suggest Stonehenge was a huge prehistoric art gallery,” David Keys @davidmkeys, Monday 8 October 2012. READ IT NOW BEFORE YOU FORGET. IT ISN’T LONG, AND CONSISTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND CHARTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRONZE AGE CARVINGS ON AT LEAST ONE MEGALITH AT STONEHENGE.

SEE ALSO: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-prehistoric-religious-ceremonial-centre-discovered-archaeologists-a7425346.html,
“Vast 5,600-year-old religious centre discovered near Stonehenge,” The centre was built more than 1,000 years before the stones of Stonehenge were erected.
David Keys Archaeology Correspondent @davidmkeys Friday 18 November 2016 19:59 GMT


ON THE SUBJECT OF THOSE TROUBLESOME BLUESTONES AND THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE STONEHENGE SITE, SEE ANOTHER BIT OF INFORMATION FROM WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestone,

Bluestone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

. . . .

“Stonehenge[edit]

The term "bluestone" in Britain is used in a loose sense to cover all of the "foreign" stones at Stonehenge. It is a "convenience" label rather than a geological term, since at least 20 different rock types are represented. One of the most common rocks in the assemblage is known as Preseli Spotted Dolerite—a chemically altered igneous rock containing spots or clusters of secondary minerals replacing plagioclase feldspar. It is a medium grained dark and heavy rock, harder than granite. Preseli bluestone tools, such as axes, have been discovered elsewhere within the British Isles. Many of them appear to have been made in or near Stonehenge, since there are petrographic similarities with some of the spotted dolerites there.

The bluestones at Stonehenge were placed there during the third phase of construction at Stonehenge around 2300 BC.[1] It is assumed that there were about 80 of them originally, but this has never been proven since only 43 remain. The stones are estimated to weigh between 2 and 4 tons each. The majority of them are believed to have been brought from the Preseli Hills, about 250 kilometres (150 miles) away in Wales, either through glaciation (glacial erratic theory) or through humans organizing their transportation. If a glacier transported the stones, then it must have been the Irish Sea Glacier.[citation needed] In such event, one might expect to find other bluestones near the Stonehenge site, but no such bluestones (apart from fragments) have been found.[2]

The archaeological find of the Boscombe Bowmen* has been cited in support of the human transport theory, while new glacier modelling supports the erratic theory. Preseli Bluestone dolerite axe heads have been found around the Preseli Hills as well, indicating that there was a population who knew how to work with the stones,[3] but researchers reporting in 2015 found no firm evidence of quarrying at Rhosyfelin in the Preselis.[4]

A summary of the major aspects of the Stonehenge "bluestone conundrum" was published in 2008.[5] In the same year a book devoted specifically to the problem of bluestone provenance and transport concluded that the Stonehenge bluestones are essentially an ill-sorted assemblage of glacial erratics.[6] Further research into the origin of the bluestones was published in 2012.[7]”



WHO WERE THE BOSCOMBE BOWMEN? THIS IS INFORMATION THAT EVERY ARCHAEOLOGIST DREAMS OF FINDING -- A POSSIBLE SMOKING GUN.

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/publications/amesbury-archer-and-boscombe-bowmen
The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen - Bell Beaker burials at Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire
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Found a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves of the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen date to the 24th century BC and are two of the earliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain.

The Boscombe Bowmen grave contained the collective burial of five adult males of Bell Beaker date, a teenager who was probably also male, and one, possibly two, children. The Amesbury Archer was the single burial of a 35–45 year old man who had lived with impaired mobility because of the absence of his left knee cap. Isotope analyses suggest that both graves were those of incomers to Wessex. A third grave, the so-called 'Companion', found close to that of the Amesbury Archer, was that of a 20–25 year old man. A rare trait in their feet shows that the two men were related.

The grave of the Boscombe Bowmen contained objects made of flint, including a group of finely made arrowheads, seven Beakers, an antler pendant, and a boars' tusk. The Amesbury Archer's grave contained an unusually large number and variety of objects, including five Beakers, several caches of flint, 17 barbed and tanged arrowheads, two bracers, three copper knives/daggers, a pair of gold basket ornaments, boar's tusks, and a stone tool for metalworking. The 'Companion' was buried with similar gold ornaments and a boar's tusk but no Beaker. The objects have strong continental connections and the stone metalworking tool or cushion stone in the grave of the Amesbury Archer may explain why his mourners afforded him one of the most well-furnished burials yet found in Europe.

This excavation report contains a series of wide-ranging studies and scientific analyses by an array of experts, and a discussion of the graves within their British and continental European contexts.

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