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mountainman
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Re: The bluestone debate
Nov 16, 2008, 14:54
GordonP wrote:
Nothing difficult about loading a 6 ton stone onto a boat. Not even in Neolithic times.


Hmmm -- nothing difficult in theory, maybe, but in a real world of slippery river-banks, tides and fast-flowing streams? I was involved in the Millennium Stone project in 2000. The organizers thought it would be easy to shift the bluestone from the shore at Blackpool Mill onto the two trussed-together curraghs. Total shambles. A JCB and a heavy lift crane both had to be brought in to do the job. Then a bit later the stone was lost onto the bed of Milford haven and had to be recovered with the aid of divers and a salvage pontoon. The full exciting story here:
http://www.brianjohn.f2s.com/enigma2.html
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