Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)

Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)

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Astronomer by inclination, physicist by degree. Polymoth and Stonehenge geek. I write a few things now and then about the archaeoastronomy and archaeology of the site. www.stonehengemonument.co.uk www.stonesofstonehenge.org.uk web.org.uk

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Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)
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And now (well, tomorrow at 3pm), something from the back catalogue - how the Neolithic House replicas at the Stonehenge Visitor Centre were built. You most likely won't have seen this anywhere previously. Starring Julian and Luke, back in 2014. www.youtube.com/@julianricha...

youtube.comArchaemediaWelcome to the official YouTube channel of Dr Julian Richards, Archaeologist and Broadcaster. I've been an archaeologist for a very long time, fascinated by our shared past and always keen to explai...
Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)
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I don't think the second half of this idea works. The earliest phase of SH is 3000 BCE, which is about 3,200 years after Doggerland suffered from the effects of the Storegga Slide. I can't see meso hunter-gatherers moving 6 tonnes across a salt marsh, no matter how motivated they were. /2

Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)
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Although I do think the AS was probably very early to SH (perhaps the founding stone), I think it's the neo society of the Scotland + Orkney + Hebrides region that decided to move one of "their" stones south to the spot where SH now stands.

Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)
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Archaeology folks, I'm looking for a georeferenced plot (geophys or otherwise) of the pit alignment at Warren Field, Aberdeenshire and am drawing a blank. "A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns" (Murray et al 2009, ISBN 978-1-84217-347-3) has a layout plan, but no coordinates so I can't GIS it. Anyone?

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Mike Pitts
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Cameron split English Heritage from Historic England in 2015, bunged EH a one-off £80m & untied its moorings. It was never going to work @suegreaney.bsky.social: "the only solution is for English Heritage to be taken back in by the nation, and renationalised,” www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

telegraph.co.ukInside the civil war in English Heritage which has brought its chief downNearly 200 planned redundancies and shuttered historic sites have left staff mutinous and weighing up strike action
Simon (@weborguk@vivaldi.net)
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Every so often (like, about every couple of days) I find myself wishing that the PDF of "Stonehenge in its Landscape" (Cleal et al, 1995) on ADS (archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/vie...) wasn't a poorly scanned copy but one that contained the text as text. It'd make searching the thing easier.

archaeologydataservice.ac.ukEnglish Heritage Archaeological MonographsEnglish Heritage has a long tradition of producing highly illustrated archaeological monographs about key sites and topics of importance to the understanding of the historic environment in England. Ma...

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