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"The use of wooden wedges and hydraulic expansion to split stone occupies a nebulous position between historical anecdote and mechanical plausibility" - is it just an archaeological myth? www.sarsen.org/2025/02/wate...

Previously unseen photos of the excavated Altar Stone at Stonehenge, exclusive first view of them showing new features of the enigmatic stone. www.sarsen.org/2025/02/the-...

Fingask barrow columbarium - completed but not yet open for business…#DeathBC

Did the Cuckoo and Tor stones also come from West Woods? - A new paper suggests they did. Earliest Movement of Sarsen Into the Stonehenge Landscape: New Insights from Geochemical and Visibility Analysis of the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The photo was discovered too late to go into the new MPP et al paper but do these enigmatic engravings on the Altar Stone suggest another link to non-Wessex communities? smartframe.historicenglandservices.org.uk/p/p50107/a5a... via @HE_Archive

The long awaited MPP article on Stonehenge has arrived journals.uclpress.co.uk/ai/article/i...

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Earlier this year I found photos showing previously unknown engravings on the Stonehenge Altar Stone. Exactly where on the stone they are wasn't clear so I'm pleased to have solved the mystery, I think. www.sarsen.org/2024/12/the-...

A stormy day in Boscastle