This site was created to highlight the fact that the "mystery" of the Stonehenge bluestones has by no means been "solved." Much current archaeological literature refers to the human transport of the bluestones from Mynydd Preseli to Stonehenge as established fact, whereas it is nothing more than a theory with many inbuilt defects. There are two conflicting theories about how the stones moved from West Wales to the Salisbury Plain district -- one involving glacier ice, and the other involving human effort on a grand (indeed unprecedented) scale. The glacial theory has been dismissed and marginalised systematically by archaeologists keen to demonstrate the organizational and engineering skills of prehistoric man. At the same time their human transport theory has become a ruling hypothesis, presumably on the basis that if something is repeated often enough, it must be true.

Recently (March-April 2008) the BBC, Timewatch and much of the media have revisited this issue, in connection with a new dig at Stonehenge by Prof Tim Darvill and Prof Geoffrey Wainwright. The two professors have repeated over and again that the human transport theory has been established beyond doubt, and that they are currently trying to establish WHEN and WHY Neolithic tribal groups transported maybe 80 bluestones from Pembrokeshire to Stonehenge. They have forgotten the little word "IF"............. so it's time for some critical analysis.

This site is a few years old, imported from an old web server and tweaked. Apologies for its somewhat crude and folksy appearance! When I have time, it will be redesigned.