The Newall boulder (Hawley/Newall 1924)

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A rhyolite boulder that R.S. Newall collected in 1924 from Hawley's excavations at Stonehenge. It is central to the argument over ice vs human transport.

References

• Bevins, R.E., Pearce, N.J.G., Ixer, R.A., Pirrie, D., Andò, S., Hillier, S., Turner, P., Power, M. 2023. The Stonehenge Altar Stone was probably not sourced from the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh Basin: time to broaden our geographic and stratigraphic horizons? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 51: 104215. DOI (open access)
• Bevins, R.E., Pearce, N.J.G., Ixer, R.A., Scourse, J., Daw, T., Parker Pearson, M., Pitts, M., Field, D., Pirrie, D., Saunders, I., Power, M. 2025. The enigmatic 'Newall boulder' excavated at Stonehenge in 1924: new data and correcting the record. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 66: 105303. DOI (open access)
• John, B.S. 2024. A bluestone boulder at Stonehenge: implications for the glacial transport theory. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 73: 117–134. DOI (open access)
• Daw, T. 2022-06. sarsen.org blog post "the newall boulder is rsn18 enq2305 and". link (open access)
• Daw, T. 2022-09. sarsen.org blog post "the newall boulder not glacial erratic". link (open access)
• Daw, T. 2026-02. sarsen.org blog post "scientific fact check could white tufa". link (open access)

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