@article{40732ba018f34dc58fc2bcc099f2b5b4,
title = "Lithological description and provenancing of a collection of bluestones from excavations at Stonehenge by William Hawley in 1924 with implications for the human versus ice transport debate of the monument{\textquoteright}s bluestone megaliths",
abstract = "A rhyolite boulder collected by R. S. Newall in 1924 from an excavation at Stonehenge has been pivotal to arguments concerning glacial versus human transport of the bluestones to Stonehenge. Initial studies suggested that the boulder came from north Wales, and hence was a probable glacial erratic. New petrographic and geochemical analyses however support it being from Craig Rhos-y-Felin in west Wales, the source of much debitage recovered from Stonehenge. Examination of the form and surface features of the boulder provides no evidence for it being erratic. Instead, it is considered to be one more piece of debitage probably derived from a broken-up monolith.",
keywords = "Neolithic, Stonehenge, bluestones, possible erratic, provenance, rhyolite boulder, transport mode",
author = "Richard Bevins and Ixer, {Rob A.} and Nick Pearce and James Scourse and Tim Daw",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank Mike Howe (British Geological Survey) and Adrian Green (Salisbury Museum) for access to samples used in this study. Adrian Nardonne and Lizzie Richmond at the University of Bath archives greatly assisted with supplying copies of correspondence from the Geoffrey Kellaway Archive, while Rhian Kendall (British Geological Survey) kindly searched the BGS archives for Kellaway's photographs. Olwen-Williams Thorpe provided detailed information of the Open University sampling and analysis programme including the sketch in Figure 2b. Sam Hughes (Camborne School of Mines) is thanked for identifying the lithology of the boulder in Figure 9 and Phil Gibbard (University of Cambridge) and Phil Hughes (University of Manchester) for discussion on the most recent evidence for Pleistocene ice limits in southern England. We very much appreciate constructive comments received during the review process. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1002/gea.21971",
language = "English",
volume = "38",
pages = "771--785",
journal = "Geoarchaeology: An International Journal",
issn = "0883-6353",
publisher = "Wiley",
number = "6",
}