Stonehenge research notes

Topics

• Altar Stone: the Welsh (Senni Beds / Brecon / Cosheston) source hypotheses
• Aubrey Holes
• Bluestone lithology groups (petrographic scheme)
• Bluestonehenge' (West Amesbury henge)
• Boles (Bowls) Barrow bluestone
• Cunnington 1884 thin sections and rock specimens (Wiltshire Museum)
• Durrington Walls
• Heel Stone
• Lake House meteorite and the central pit
• North Barrow
• Preseli bluestone source outcrops
• Q and R Holes (the double bluestone circle)
• Sarsen sources: West Woods and the debate
• Sarsen transport routes (least-cost model)
• Stone-raising and levelling experiments
• Stonehenge basics: location, phases, solstitial axis and the Mesolithic posts
• Stonehenge bluestones (hub)
• Stonehenge cremated remains
• Stonehenge parchmarks, July 2013
• The bluestone transport debate: human vs glacial, land vs sea
• The Newall boulder (Hawley/Newall 1924)
• The Stonehenge Avenue
• Waun Mawn (proposed "proto-Stonehenge")
• What was Stonehenge for? Published theories
• Woodhenge

Papers

• Abbott & Anderson-Whymark 2012, Stonehenge Laser Scan
• Allen et al. 2016, Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge
• Bevins & Ixer 2018: Retracing the footsteps of H.H. Thomas (Antiquity 92)
• Bevins et al. 2017: U–Pb zircon ages for the Fishguard Volcanic Group and bluestone provenance (JGS 174)
• Bevins et al. 2020: constraining the Altar Stone's provenance (JAS 120)
• Bevins et al. 2021: alteration fabrics and the "spots" in the spotted dolerites (JASR 36)
• Bevins et al. 2022: linking derived debitage to the Altar Stone by pXRF (Mineralogical Magazine 86)
• Bevins et al. 2023: bluestones from Hawley's 1924 excavations and the Newall boulder (Geoarchaeology 38)
• Bevins et al. 2023: the 1844 Altar Stone sample, Salisbury Museum 2010K 240 (JASR 49)
• Bevins et al. 2023: the Altar Stone probably not from the Anglo-Welsh Basin ORS (JASR 51)
• Bevins et al. 2024 — Was the Altar Stone from Orkney?
• Bevins et al. 2025: the enigmatic 'Newall boulder', new data and correcting the record (JASR 66)
• Bevins, Ixer & Pearce 2014: Carn Goedog is the likely major source of the doleritic bluestones (JAS 42)
• Bevins, Pearce & Ixer 2021: REE refinement of the Group 2 non-spotted dolerites (JASR 38)
• Clarke et al. 2024, A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone (Nature)
• Clarke et al. 2026: Altar to Attic to Analysis, Victorian thin section S45 (JASR 70)
• Darvill & Wainwright 2009: Stonehenge excavations 2008 (Antiquaries Journal 89)
• Darvill et al. 2012, 'Stonehenge remodelled
• Daw 2026 — Screening the Orcadian Basin
• Ixer & Bevins 2010: lithics from the Cursus Field (WANHM 103)
• Ixer & Bevins 2011: petrography of six Bluestone Circle orthostats (WANHM 104)
• Ixer & Bevins 2013: rhyolitic debitage from the Heelstone area (WANHM 106)
• Ixer & Bevins 2021: the Aubrey Holes and their stones (WANHM 114)
• Ixer & Turner 2006: petrography of the Altar Stone and other non-sarsen sandstones (WANHM 99)
• Ixer et al. 2022: Stonehenge Dacite Group D, fact or fiction? (WANHM 115)
• John 2024: a bluestone boulder at Stonehenge and the glacial transport theory (E&G Quaternary Science Journal 73)
• Nash et al. 2020, Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge
• Parker Pearson et al. 2009, Who was buried at Stonehenge?
• Parker Pearson et al. 2015: Craig Rhos-y-felin, a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry (Antiquity 89)
• Parker Pearson et al. 2019: megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones (Antiquity 93)
• Parker Pearson et al. 2022: extraction techniques at the bluestone quarries (JASR 46)
• Parker Pearson et al. 2025: Stonehenge and its Altar Stone, the significance of distant stone sources (Archaeology International 27)
• Pearce, Bevins & Ixer 2022: pXRF of Stone 62 and Preseli dolerite outcrops (JASR 44)
• Richards & Whitby 1997, The engineering of Stonehenge
• Snoeck et al. 2018, Strontium isotopes in the Stonehenge cremations
• Stone 1947: The Stonehenge Cursus and its affinities (Archaeological Journal 104)
• Thomas 1923: The source of the stones of Stonehenge (Antiquaries Journal 3)
• Thorpe et al. 1991: geological sources and transport of the bluestones (PPS 57)
• Williams-Thorpe & Thorpe [1992]: geochemistry, sources and transport of the bluestones
• Willis et al. 2016, The dead of Stonehenge

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