Millstone Grit and Westphalian Coal circle Stonehenge Mound


Posted by
Garry Denke on May 16, 2004 at 10:50
(67.172.211.64)

Re: "Just follow the pale 'Grit' road" (Denoco Inc.)

Millstone Grit and Westphalian Coal circle Stonehenge Mound

Neolithic stone circles, henges, barrows, and causewayed camps' of North Western Europe first purpose were as coal exploration sites, being the remains of diggings that yielded no coal. Stones were placed in the smaller test holes, the 'stone circles', because they would silt in much faster than the larger, and deeper henges, barrows, and causewayed camps, having no need of markers. This is how the Stone Age miners recorded where not to waste time re-digging for coal where none was previously found. No maps or coordinates were available in Neolithic time like explorationists have at their disposal today to record old digs. Given the greater quantity of 'stone circles' on the landscape, in relation to the other varieties, the ‘stone circling’ mining exploration technique was most popular because it required much less digging work, and time, to evaluate potential coal bearing sites. The different patterns observable today are likely the result of various Neolithic mining exploration techniques, being the four general types mentioned. However, at some of the 'stone circles' exploration sites, such as Avebury, the ancient miners did actually go back to re-test their prospects from time to time, digging again, being convinced that a second try would yield the much needed coal, in spite of past failure. At Avebury, for instance, evidence suggests the ancient miners went back a third time using a different technique on another go around, resulting in a henge with two 'stone circles'. But alas, no coal at the populated, energy poor, Avebury. Much later many of these prehistoric mining exploration sites were utilized for various purposes, which anthropologists and archaeologists decipher today, however no one developed a comprehensive and conclusive underlying reason for all of the unusual digging patterns in North Western Europe. This is because no anthropologist or archaeologist suggested, knew of, or presented any evidence of coal being used in the Neolithic, and coal’s actual first purpose, simple campfire fuel, was masked by limiting its first use to the smelting of metals. Today, the "Stone Age Coal Mining Theory", as it is called, required disciplines armed with the knowledge, and learned in the way, of being able to describe the difference between a black rock (coal), from a white rock (limestone), to chalk in the record covering the exploration, production, and first usage of coal in North Western Europe. The first evidence that black coal was utilized in the Neolithic where both a ‘stone circle’ and a henge occur was discovered in 1656 by Dr. Garry Denke at Stonehenge Mound, being 100 meters (109 feet) E-SE of Heelstone Ditch. Black coal rammed into a white chalk in the form of a circle around a high reef-like pile of foreign white limestone had been found. Because coal does not occur naturally at Stonehenge, its presence around a white chalk-like bioherm base situated on a seaward down sloping hill, suggests Stonehenge was a geologic mining school, in that ancient quest for campfire fuel in North Western Europe's cold climate unforested areas. The main problem with the current accepted 'forest clearings' theory is: When forested areas are cut down, or burned down, they grow back, and many times stronger.

Stonehenge Mound circled by Millstone Grit and Westphalian Coal
http://homepages.enterprise.net/sisman/PHOTOs/StoneH1.jpg
(Foreground E-SE Stonehenge Mound and Background is Stonehenge)

Stonehenge Mound's Coal is from South Wales Coalfield's Cross Keys
http://www.xkeys.freeserve.co.uk/geology/coalfield.gif
(Altar Stone from Red, Mound Stone from Blue, Coal Stone from Black)

Neolithic Coalfield Quest for Campfire Coal in North Western Europe
http://www.anima.demon.co.uk/img/megalithdist.gif
(Non-Productive Coal Stone Sites in Blue)
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(Productive Coal Stone Sites in Black)

Today Explorationists Just Use Maps to Record Non-Productive Sites
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~jtoro/Petroleum/petroleum_figs/game/fig3.jpg
(Clear Circles having Quartercircle Pegs are Non-Productive Sites)

Exposed South Wales Coalfield rim was indeed the hot play for Stone Age coal stone open-pit miners who gathered coal for campfire fuel. There are no pre-Neolithic or Neolithic stone circles, henges, barrows, or causewayed camps on or along the sides of this basin's outer rims. Why is that? The answer of course is a question. Why explore where it is easy to find surface coal, there is no need to, it is at a narrow banded 'road'. This area quite possibly might be the original discovery of 'old black magic' itself, the first coal ignited with a wood fuel campfire built on a coal seam by chance. There has to be some reason the earliest rocks at Stonehenge are from this area in South Wales, don't you think? According to the Doctor who gathered samples by pale and horse, at Stonehenge, and from along South Wales' yellow Millstone Grit circular rim counterclockwise in 1656, with Black Pennsylvanian Coal to his left, and White Mississippian Limestone and Old Red Sandstone to his right, "To find coal here," he said, "Just follow the pale 'Grit' road, follow the pale 'Grit' road, follow the pale 'Grit' road,"... Grit was his English horse's name, the pale hung from Grit's bridle.

1) Cross Keys Coal circling Stonehenge Mound is Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Westphalian coal.
2) Millstone Grit circling Stonehenge Mound is Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Namurian sandstone.
3) Stonehenge Mound itself is Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) Arundian limestone and its artifacts.


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