# Parker Pearson 2019: Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones

> Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards et al., 2019. 12 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the quarry evidence and the…

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# Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones

Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards et al., 2019. _Antiquity_.

The Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin quarries together: extraction by wedging along natural joints, the quarrying dated to about 3400–3000 BC, and the inference that the stones were moved overland to Salisbury Plain.

**Stonehenge** Articledoi: **[10.15184/aqy.2018.111](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.111)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for the quarry evidence and the human-transport case.

## Cited by on this site 12 records

[People quarried the stones in Preseli and carried them to Wessex, overland or with a water stage, around 3000…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/answers/ANS0CRWPDMJ1XAS/people-quarried-the-stones-in-preseli-and-carried-them-to)

Answer

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[The bluestones first stood in another, unlocated monument in Wales before coming to Stonehenge.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/answers/ANS0CRWPJ166Q4G/the-bluestones-first-stood-in-another-unlocated-monument-in)

Answer

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[Extraction recesses, platforms, wedges and hammerstones at Craig Rhos-y-felin and Carn Goedog, dated about…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPDWC2XZM/extraction-recesses-platforms-wedges-and-hammerstones-at)

Evidence

EVD

[No route, trackway or lost stone between Wales and Wessex has been found.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPEVM490A/no-route-trackway-or-lost-stone-between-wales-and-wessex-has)

Evidence

EVD

[Quarry recesses, wedges and hammerstones at the bluestone outcrops date to about 3400–3000 BC.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWQ0XR2MX9/quarry-recesses-wedges-and-hammerstones-at-the-bluestone)

Evidence

EVD

[Quarrying dates precede the first bluestone settings at Stonehenge by up to several centuries.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPJ900PSQ/quarrying-dates-precede-the-first-bluestone-settings-at)

Evidence

EVD

[The bluestones derive from a small number of outcrops with quarrying evidence, not a dispersed erratic train.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWPFTW34CR/the-bluestones-derive-from-a-small-number-of-outcrops-with)

Evidence

EVD

[The quarries, tools and dates show people did the work with Neolithic means.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/evidence/EVD0CRWQ2ME76J5/the-quarries-tools-and-dates-show-people-did-the-work-with)

Evidence

EVD

[Bluestones are quarried at Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/events/EVT0CRWPA760YRW/bluestones-are-quarried-at-carn-goedog-and-craig-rhos-y)

EVT

[Mike Parker Pearson](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/people/FIG0CRWP7S2771Q/mike-parker-pearson)

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[Stonehenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge)

The mystery article

MYS

[How did the bluestones get from the Preseli Hills to Salisbury Plain?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/stonehenge/questions/QST0CRWPCNA3XRK/how-did-the-bluestones-get-from-the-preseli-hills-to)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Welham, K., Casswell, C., French, C., Schlee, D., Shaw, D., Simmons, E., Stanford, A., Bevins, R., & Ixer, R. (2019). Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.111
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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.111)

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