Visited them a couple of years ago, it is a gorgeous spot.I just came across pictures of the site from which some Rhyolite "Bluestones" of Stonehenge were sourced, a place called Craig Rhos-y-Felin.
Looks like a really nice little spot if you are ever in the neighbourhood
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and that Geoffrey of Monmouth actually got something right
True.Fucking amazing idea - building it in Wales, dismantling it then moving it all that way.
I'm with the "We're moving? But what about our stuff?" "We'll bring it" team.True.
Must say as I was watching it I couldn't help thinking that the proposed re-location smacked of the outcome of some sort of asymmetric power struggle, defeat, enslavement or some sort of 'colonialisation' with the victors really rubbing the defeated noses in it by nicking their scared site.
But maybe that's just me seeing the dark?
Yep, I suppose this is one thing that Parker Pearson's team would like to explore, though I don't suppose it will ever be possible to give more than speculative explanations?I'm with the "We're moving? But what about our stuff?" "We'll bring it" team.
One thing that archeology does is reflect the now onto the past and I did get the impression PP and Roberts were projecting a Remainer/Unionist sentiment onto the past. A coming together of East and West. Tribes uniting. Maybe.Yep, I suppose this is one thing that Parker Pearson's team would like to explore, though I don't suppose it will ever be possible to give more than speculative explanations?
The fact that, according to Parker Pearson, the stones represent the ancestors could well support your notion that migrants wanted to take the ancestors along with them to their new lands?
Who knows?
But all fascinating stuff.
True, but it's always important to remember when clambering around on the top of wet, cold hills looking for stones etc. that, in climatic terms it's helpful to think of Brecon more as Bordeaux!something else they didn't look at was climate - what was happening, was South West Wales becoming less attractive (wind/rain/flooding) with Central Southern England looking like a good option?
The Atlantic climatic era: the period 6200 BC - 3500 BC (approx.) is now regarded as a major 'Climatic Optimum'. In the NW Europe / NE Atlantic region, pressure is thought to have been relatively higher, with the depression tracks much further north (and / or south .. e.g. highly blocked) & less intense than before or since. The northwest of these islands were warmer, drier & less 'stormier' than modern conditions.
Mean annual temperatures eventually (by latter part of this "Atlantic" period, i.e. 3500 to 4000 BC) it is estimated that a +2 degC anomaly (c.f. 1960's) was probable, with warm winters. Moderate humidity overall, but periods of heavy rain, some of lengthy duration. Rainfall evenly distributed winter to summer. (4600 - 3500 BC: moderate dryness.)
Waunfawr isn't in South West Wales, it's up North (but yeah, weather extremities angle still stands!)something else they didn't look at was climate - what was happening, was South West Wales becoming less attractive (wind/rain/flooding) with Central Southern England looking like a good option?
where are you seeing this? have you a link?
where are you seeing this? have you a link?
i just put "lidar map uk" in google. there's different ones. the picture i posted was from the houseprices website de_dog posted above.where are you seeing this? have you a link?