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Chlorine-36 dating and the bluestones of Stonehenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Olwen Williams-Thorpe ,
D. Graham Jenkins ,
Judith Jenkins  and
John S. Watson
Olwen Williams-Thorpe
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England
D. Graham Jenkins
Affiliation:
The Old Chapel, Pitton, Rhossili, Swansea SA3 1PH, Wales
Judith Jenkins
Affiliation:
The Old Chapel, Pitton, Rhossili, Swansea SA3 1PH, Wales
John S. Watson
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England
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Abstract

The bluestones of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain continue to attract controversy. New dates on Stonehenge material using the Chlorine-36 method have been reported as evidence that the bluestones were moved from their Welsh sources by human transport, not by glaciation. Here Olwen Williams-Thorpe and colleagues, who have argued for the glacial transport theory, show that the Chlorine-36 dates have been misinterpreted.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 1019 - 1020
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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