Fingerprinting Sarsens to West Woods

map of west woods the origin of the sarsens and routes to stonehenge

The fingerprinting of the sarsens of Stonehenge is fascinating. Though it took nearly three years and was a year late.


Seems that most of them are of the same type and probably from the same area. Even the Heel Stone! Which, as it is undressed and there’s a pit close by that it could have been pulled from, is surprising. As well, I thought there were at least two types of sarsen, orange and purple. But this seems to be unimportant — now.

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Durrington Shafts could be sarsen pits

Again, Brian John picks apart the ‘Durrington Shafts’ and points out that even the authors think that the northern arc is likely natural.


It pisses me off so much that the Stonehenge area has become so full of big junk science. It’s hard to get to the small truths.


Some of these holes (none are shafts) could well be sarsen extraction pits, which is far more important and has been ignored in this recent paper.

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Four model sizes

Stonehenge model replica four sizes of models

Rendering of the four sizes. In bright copper sarsens, rusty iron bluestones and grass with numbers base. More variation examples here:
http://stonehen.ge/200th
 1,000th scale is 39mm square and T2 is 6.3mm high (1½” ¼”)
 200th scale is 195mm square T2 31mm high (7⅔” 1¼”)
 76th scale 514mm square T2 83mm high (20¼” 3¼”)
 35th scale is 1116mm square T2 180mm high (43¾” 7″)

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