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The source of the Stonehenge bluestones was identified as long ago as 1923, when the eminent petrographer, Herbert Thomas, marked their origin as being the Preseli hills of South West Wales, some 200 miles distant.
Subsequent investigations have attempted to determine how these considerable rocks were transported over such a distance to Salisbury Plain, rather than why. It is the why that most concerns us here.
Work is currently underway in the form of a pilot study being conducted under the auspices of the Royal College of Art, focusing on the Carn Menyn area of Mynydd Preseli in South West Wales, in advance of a more expansive, future project, ‘Landscape & Perception’, that will reconsider the audiovisual perception of the iconic prehistoric landscapes of Preseli, Avebury in Wiltshire, and Stonehenge itself.
The project is being conducted by Paul Devereux, whose work over 25 years has included being a part of a new approach to the study of sound in archaeological contexts, ‘Archaeoacoustics’, and Jon Wozencroft, founder and editor of the music publishers, Touch, and senior tutor in sound and moving image in the Dept. of Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art.
Rebels in Control were hired by RCA Research to build a website, documenting the project's output. The site was developed in close collaboration with Jon Wozencroft and is powered by a CMS back-end.