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GordonP
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Re: The bluestone debate
Nov 19, 2008, 22:26
At the end of the day I think we will have to "beg to differ on this question".

Although you seem to ignore my reasoning that if you need 640 men to move a stone on rollers then my seemingly slower method of stone-rowing is actually far quicker because I can move 10 megaliths at the same time with such a workforce.

Anyway I am the first man in written history to suggest picking up a megalith in order to move it, that is apart from William Stuckely, but that piece of information only came to light years after I first suggested Stone-rowing in an article in the Derby Evening Telegraph December 1999.

Quite interesting though how he described the transport, stones moved using "leavers in the nature of galley oars". See Stuckely's Stonehenge An Unpublished Manusript 1721-1724 (Yale) by Aubrey Burl and Neil Mortimer.
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