The real story of Newall's Boulder
By kind permission of Current Archaeology here is the real story of Newall's Boulder:
Victorian gifts: new insights into the Stonehenge bluestones
The recent rediscovery of a series of rock samples collected during the Victorian period has allowed new analysis of some of the stones of Stonehenge. Rob Ixer, Richard Bevins, Nick Pearce, and David Dawson explain more.
Link: Current Archaeology August 29, 2022
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The peer reviewed paper is: Bevins, R., Ixer, R., Pearce, N., Scourse, J., & Daw, T. (2023). 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's bluestone megaliths. Geoarchaeology, 38, 771–785.https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21971