tonyh
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 03, 2009, 10:40
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They very well may have been used for moving stones..
Whatever theory you favour. the stones will need to be moved at some point.
How, it was done remains unanswered..
Tony
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GordonP
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 03, 2009, 17:47
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nigelswift wrote: "But in terms of the practicalities, bringing the sarsens twenty miles was far more impressive. Yet the internet is full of how wondrous it is that the bluestones came from Wales and there's far less about the real miraculous achievement. It's not fair. The real heroes aren't getting the credit they're owed. ;)
Could not agree more.
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StoneGloves
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 04, 2009, 14:31
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Yep !
Also - although it is a distraction - there are features in Northumberland where the setting or rising sun or moon appears from a hollow on the horizon with the knowledge that producing that dugout must have taken one heck of a lot of effort. Has anyone computed the total mass of stone at Stonehenge, now and at some time in prehistory? It would be interesting to compare the result with one of the stone rows in Bolton (the one with the big stones).
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Pilgrim
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 06, 2009, 14:52
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Rolling Ronnie wrote: Coming to this as a complete outsider, so please shoot me down in flames, but why can't oxen have been used? They were domesticated in Europe around 4000bc ?
Hi RR,
I think it's probably down to a variety of methods... but I'm not sure as to whether oxen/auroch power would have made it up the slope from the Vale of Pewsey. Of course, it could have been rowed up.... :)
Peace
Pilgrim
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tonyh
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 06, 2009, 22:13
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Unless they found the Stones on Salisbury Plain..
That is..
Tony
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Pilgrim
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 07, 2009, 13:03
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tonyh wrote: Unless they found the Stones on Salisbury Plain..
That is..
Tony
Hi Tony
I seem to recall that someone identified the sarsen as coming from theMother's Jam area through petrochemical analysis. Of course it could have been a VERY specific glacier... possibly the 51A Palaeolithic Express service from Swindon that calls at all stops to the coast.
And thus it goes on. Nobody knows. Some of us have opinions and some of us have beliefs. Me? I have cold toes.
Peace
Pilgrim
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tonyh
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 07, 2009, 13:25
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I was thinking more like in a drift.
Much like those found on the Marlborough Downs.
Tony
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Pilgrim
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 07, 2009, 13:46
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tonyh wrote: I was thinking more like in a drift.
Much like those found on the Marlborough Downs.
Tony
But ARE they a drift? Pretty isolated methinks. Like I said; nobody knows....
Peace
Pilgrim
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tonyh
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 07, 2009, 13:54
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Pilgrim wrote: tonyh wrote: I was thinking more like in a drift.
Much like those found on the Marlborough Downs.
Tony
But ARE they a drift? Pretty isolated methinks. Like I said; nobody knows....
Peace
Pilgrim
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Yep,
Possibly so..
No stones the size of the Stonehenge Sarsens are found on the Marlborough Downs though.
But as You say Nobody knows..
Tony
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Pilgrim
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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jul 07, 2009, 14:00
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tonyh wrote:
No stones the size of the Stonehenge Sarsens are found on the Marlborough Downs though.
But as You say Nobody knows..
Tony
Ha! THAT'S because all the "good ones" were cherry-picked for Stonehenge and Avebury... :)
Peace
Pilgrim
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