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Re: The Blue Stone Enigma
Jun 24, 2009, 08:53
Pete G wrote:
I'm not saying it Can't be done but rather than starting with small bluestones I'd like to see an attempt at a stone the size of the largest at Stonehenge being dragged up something like the escarpment to Salisbury plain.

Has anyone actualy Read Brians book?
Pete


I havn't , and do have some sympathy with the hypothesis . Builders are likely to be opportunistic and as Thorpe and Williams-Thorpe suggest most British stone circles appear to have been constructed from local materials either quarried or glacially transported but there is plenty evidence to show that worldwide in non glaciated areas ,much bigger stones than the bluestones were moved great distances and uphill . In Britain the possibility of glaciated erratics makes it more difficult to prove that transport except in in cases where there was no glaciation e.g. Old Keig .
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