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Littlestone
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Re: The bluestone debate
Dec 16, 2008, 16:39
Thorpe and Williams-Thorpe (Antiquity 1991) looked at all of the UK sites and found that the megalith builders used stones from up to 2 km away quite often, but that there was no case of stones being carried more than 5 km. So let's refer to all of these sites as "using locally-sourced stones."


No case of stones being carried more than 5km? They must have missed some of the sarsens at Stonehenge then - the ones that were hauled there from some 30km away.

The expressions 'locally sourced' and 'in the neighbourhood' are pretty meaningless when used out of the Neolithic context. And the detail of the context here is being able to shift a forty ton stone bugger 30km from A to B some four and a half thousand years ago. That ain't local - local is my Indian takeaway fella who delivers free within a radius of three miles (on his bike ;-)
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