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Paulus
Paulus
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Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 12:30
< Truth is though, one of the world's most widely known scientific facts is that "Druids brought Stonehenge from Wales" >

Ey up Nigel. Are you being sarcastic here or what...? Druids? Stone circles? Scientific facts...?
muddymick
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Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 12:32
that is very very rude..... but yet I bow to your emptiness because I am empty regards MM
Paulus
Paulus
769 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 12:34
He can't help it Mick. He's just had bad training - a typical Western pseudo-Buddhist.
juamei
juamei
2013 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 12:39
"IF glaciers got there"

Aren't the sarsen fields formed by glacial deposits?
nigelswift
8112 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 13:00
Sorry Paul, I was being ironic! Bemoaning the fact that a large proportion of the world's population believes the Druids done it.
Paulus
Paulus
769 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 14:19
Phew...Soz Nigel. I know it's the consensus-trance myth of the place - just wondered if you'd bought it aswell. Thankfully not. But gotta rush again - another football match to rage with!
Cheers - Paul
Littlestone
Littlestone
5386 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 16:01
>On the other hand, humans shifting 4 ton bluestones 150 miles seems less of a big deal than humans shifting 40 ton sarsens 20 miles.<

Nicely put :-)

Also, the transportation of the bluestones might not be an 'either or' situation - some (or all) may have been pushed by glacial action part of the way.
Pete G
Pete G
3506 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 16:06
>Also, the transportation of the bluestones might not be an 'either or' situation - some (or all) may have been pushed by glacial action part of the way.

Surely it was the corncircle monster that brung em!
Littlestone
Littlestone
5386 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 16:36
>Surely it was the corncircle monster that brung em!<

Either that or they walked (as some maintain they do ;-)
Pete G
Pete G
3506 posts

Re: The bluestone debate
Jun 15, 2006, 18:21
There is nothing you can say that is so absurd, that hasn't been said by
some druid or other.
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