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Stone Shifting 2
Aug 26, 2003, 17:00
OK, the story so far (a summary of the original Stone Shifting thread).

I found Gordons site, here… http://www.stonehengetheanswer.com/
Please read it all very carefully as it’ll save me time, and there’ll be a test later.

I invited Gordon to come on here and he did. All you need to know about him, apart from the fact he’s come up with a great theory, is that he’s been working on it for years and has been looked down upon by the archaeology establishment, which is crazy since he’s actually tried it whereas most of them have just theorized. As someone who thinks outside the box on an issue that’s central to almost everything we discuss here he’s in tune with the ethos of this site and should be nominated as a TMA hero. He’s also a self-confessed mad bugger who’s willing to stand behind a 4O ton sarsen stopping it sliding back with a bit of wood so he may end up as a TMA Saint (do we have those?).

I was going to summarize all the deliberations but it’s really too complex. All I can say is this:

We all seem to agree that Gordon’s big idea of “rowing” stones WILL work, and, more to the point it’s never been thought of, yet it’s hugely more efficient than any other method that’s been theorized. I’d say by a factor of ten at least. And, bizarre but true, it’s not much more effort to go uphill.

The implications of proving it are that previous assessments of numbers involved in making standing stone monuments could be revised downwards dramatically.

We talked about erecting a TMA Gordon Stone, and that might be on the cards. We’d need a natural sarsen and a location (any suggestions?)

There’s a hope for involvement by a film company and/or academics (anyone have any futher ideas or contacts?)

Gordon thinks some practises with a concrete stone can be arranged at his workplace in Derby. (Sign up now as latecomers will be charged…)

The same Gordon has suckered us all, by slow degrees, into talking about more and more ambitious projects, that he’s been thinking of all along. A ten ton stone! And, get this, erecting a full sized 90 ton replica of a Stonehenge Trilithon in less than 24 hours!

The way he’d do it is on his website, but we’ve also been making suggestions for variations on his basic model like moving the pivot point and the shape of the hole and the height of the stone. Steve, who has two brains, is doing a computer simulation of how the stone would fall into the hole.

The replica trilithon is currently in storage on Salisbury Plain. It was left over from a BBC project. They cheated, using modern methods, and used hundreds of people, and Gordon’s ideas look far better than theirs. There are bits about their project on the net, but the longest (too long) account is this rather bizarre transcript from an American radio phone-in on the subject…
http://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/New-Files/990630/secretsOfLostEmpires.txt

That’s it then. For any more precise details, you’ll have to read through the original thread!
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