Simon (@[email protected])

@AmandaChadburn @Timdaw I’ll send you the details later.

@Timdaw Where exactly was it filmed? Do we know?

Stonehenge, 61 years ago today. youtu.be/d2FIKMwhf4w

Trailer now live. youtu.be/I6CbuKhH-pI

A new documentary series about Stonehenge is here: ‘Stonehenge – Access All Areas’ by Julian Richards and Steve Shearn The first episode goes out on YouTube on Sunday 3rd of May 2026. A total of eleven episodes will follow at fortnightly intervals. Subscribe, Like and share: @julianrichards1483" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@julianrichard… instagram.com/julian_richard…

@Paulwheeldon9 @Mikeachim ... and the pit alignment at Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, also has mesolithic contexts dating to around 8000 BCE.

@Mikeachim Mike, I do research into early Mesolithic civilisation in Britain, and you may be interested to know that the "post holes" under the car park at Stonehenge, and Cheddar man at Gough cave both date to around the 7500 to 8000BCE.

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago... But I didn't know about the *tsunami*. Holy hell. 1/

@goustocooking @benkemp_uk If you're immunocompromised and have already consumed said product, this email notification was terrifying to receive so £2.50 compo seems a little parsimonious!

@benkemp_uk Hi Ben, Thank you for getting in touch. We are awaiting further Information from the supplier. We'll let you know as soon as we have a response. Thank you for your patience and understanding. - Carole.

@pittsmike Interesting - was this a precursor to the above-ground motion sensor "bollard" that was moved into the centre of the circle at the end of each day but later abandoned because deer/rabbits/&c kept setting it off?

Fun fact. Back in the last century the government, worried about people getting in & damaging stones, buried motion sensors in a ring around Stonehenge (damaging unrecorded archaeology in the process). But the system was never used, because tunnelling moles kept setting it off

@HughFW Hi Hugh - here at Lacock Abbey we're currently cleaning our (large) book collection and have come across a beautiful bookmark that seems to have been a Xmas gift in the early 1900s from a Mrs Fearnley Whittingstall of Flat 2, 29 Palace Gate, W8. Any relation do you think?

@AmandaChadburn @Ri315e @militaryhistori @ProfPeterDoyle @TheRestHistory @dcsandbrook @historian1914 @HistoryandMoore @GreatWarGroup @OldFrontLinePod I had a similar discussion with the decorated predictive text engine on here about obliquity of the ecliptic. In the end it spat out a decent answer but nonsense at first.

@Ri315e @militaryhistori @ProfPeterDoyle @TheRestHistory @dcsandbrook @historian1914 @HistoryandMoore @GreatWarGroup @OldFrontLinePod I’ve managed to argue with AI on here and get it to change its mind. (Whether it learns from this in real time is an interesting question). You have to have very niche, very deep knowledge to do so though. And be very confident.

How AI can be confidently wrong.... Question: “What was the deadliest day in French military history?” AI Answer: 22nd August 1914. Sounds plausible right…? but what happens when you question it, knowing its wrong? 🧵on how AI tried to convince me I was wrong...1/9

@Gocompare - any idea why your site's returning this page? No proxies or VPNs in use at this end. Oh, and the email addr given out for reporting issues is bouncing user unknown (report-an-error@gocompare.com)

@the_stone_club Nice to see the milestone's still in its original place.

Stonehenge, by Godfrey Bingley, 1892

@AmandaChadburn @EH_Stonehenge Citation needed! :-)

@EH_Stonehenge Yes, the latter!

The silent giant of Stonehenge... the Heel Stone. This 36-tonne boulder stands alone, but a nearby hole suggests it once had a twin. Moved? Lost? Did two giants once guard the ancient entrance?

With @wiltscouncil consulting on how to manage the byways at Stonehenge I have cobbled together a response based on excavation evidence. sarsen.org/2025/03/preser…

@AmandaChadburn @DrFrancisYoung @MorrisJonathan I've got a whole PowerPoint on this very topic :-)

@DrFrancisYoung When I worked at EH we had a file of theories. @MorrisJonathan who is also on the heavenly place has compiled a whole list!!

Someone should write a book about all the crackpot theories that have ever been proposed about Stonehenge, and title it 'Unhenged'

@davidjnash David - have you managed to sample the three sarsens on Figheldean 31 long barrow yet?

Visibility analysis indicates that the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone were probably intervisible. We propose they likely formed part of a planned landscape and were positioned to create a formal portal to the Stonehenge area on either bank of the River Avon.

New paper alert! "Earliest movement of sarsen into the Stonehenge landscape". Geochemical and visibility analysis of the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone suggests they were moved 400-500 years before the construction of the main sarsen settings at Stonehenge. doi.org/10.1017/ppr.20…

@AmandaChadburn @stephencogbill @hugowhymark @SueGreaney @PrehistSociety @EH_Stonehenge @JoanaValdez @JWexlerBM Neither the Archaeo-Environment, nor the EH Research Report, discuss this feature. The first only mentions the top surface. The second talks about the fact the dressing extends over the lip of the hollow filled with concrete. Laser scan data should be made freely available.

@stephencogbill @hugowhymark @SueGreaney @PrehistSociety @EH_Stonehenge @JoanaValdez @JWexlerBM Interesting: I’d start with the laser survey and see what that shows.

@AmandaChadburn @megportal Oh for Pete’s sake! Orig msg I meant Altar Stone not Slaughter!!

@AmandaChadburn @megportal I’m still unclear on the prov of the HS despite DN’s work. The unshared nature suggests early. SlS may be early too but gut feeling is it’s stage 2 (inc partner).

🚨Breaking news: New dating confirms a prehistoric origin for King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor, N Cornwall, as many of us have long suspected. This is amazing news but where's the credit for the amateur researchers who kicked this off and pushed for the dating to happen? More 1/

@AmandaChadburn @megportal * unshaped

@AmandaChadburn @megportal I'm in the latter camp - going by the stratigraphy of the north barrow's bank being overlain by the main earthwork's bank, I think the SS must be pre-3000 BCE. I suspect they may be much earlier, and that they (with the Slaughter Stone) could be the 1st monument on site.

@megportal I’m not aware of any formal dating of the SSs - I think of them now as part and parcel of the “main” sarsen phrase of Stonehenge around 2500 BC. See p69 of my recent book with Clive. Others think they are earlier.

@sbisson One of my favourite books of all time.