Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales

C Snoeck, J Pouncett, P Claeys, S Goderis… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Cremated human remains from Stonehenge provide direct evidence on the life of those few
select individuals buried at this iconic Neolithic monument. The practice of cremation has …

Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge 'Altar Stone': Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating

RE Bevins, D Pirrie, RA Ixer, H O'Brien… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Altar Stone at Stonehenge is a greenish sandstone thought to be of Late
Silurian-Devonian ('Old Red Sandstone') age. It is classed as one of the bluestone …

Lithological description and provenancing of a collection of bluestones from excavations at Stonehenge by William Hawley in 1924 with implications for the human …

R Bevins, R Ixer, N Pearce, J Scourse… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A rhyolite boulder collected by RS Newall in 1924 from an excavation at Stonehenge has
been pivotal to arguments concerning glacial versus human transport of the bluestones to …

Retracing the footsteps of HH Thomas: a review of his Stonehenge bluestone provenancing study

R Bevins, R Ixer - antiquity, 2018 - cambridge.org
The long-distance transport of the Stonehenge bluestones from the Mynydd Preseli area of
north Pembrokeshire was first proposed by geologist HH Thomas in 1923. For over 80 …

The Stonehenge bluestones did not come from Waun Mawn in West Wales

B John - The Holocene, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the hypothesis that Waun Mawn in West Wales provided the bluestone
monoliths that were used at Stonehenge. Some archaeologists believe that the site supports …

The bluestones of Stonehenge

R Ixer, R Bevins - Geology Today, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How and why the bluestones arrived at Stonehenge, the UK's most revered ancient
monument, has long held people's imagination. The key to understanding these questions …

The Österplana Fossil Meteorites and… what else? Terrestrial Cr-spinels and zircons in the Ordovician limestones of the Thorsberg quarry (Sweden)

D Lenaz, M Velicogna, M Petrelli, B Schmitz - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the Ordovician limestone of the Thorsberg quarry (South Sweden), about 130 meteorites
have been found. Among the extraterrestrial material, several terrestrial Cr-spinels and …

What if none of the building stones at Stonehenge came from Wiltshire?

KA Whitaker - Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The sarsen and bluestone stones at Stonehenge (Wiltshire, UK) have played a significant
role in the development of twentieth‐century ideas about Neolithic and early Bronze Age …

[PDF][PDF] Petrography of sarsen debitage from the Stonehenge Landscap e–a broad and perhaps scattered church

R Ixer, R Bevins - Wiltshire Archaeological and Natura l History …, 2021 - academia.edu
The 'total petrography'of the igneous and sedimentary bluestones found as orthostats and
debitage within Stonehenge and the Stonehenge Landscape has been described and …

Sarsen Stones in Wessex

KA Whitaker - 2020 - researchdata.reading.ac.uk
This dataset comprises the manually-digitised analogue records created by the Sarsen
Stones in Wessex survey. The survey was led by Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of …