Which ones? The greys, the hobbits or the tall skinny ones?It was the Aliens.
Which ones? The greys, the hobbits or the tall skinny ones?It was the Aliens.
Impressive but it also suggests there may have been a United Kingdom long before 1707 as it would have meant one tribe would have been crossing the land of other tribes as the moved the stone through Britain![]()
Stonehenge mystery deepens as altar traced to Scotland
A central stone of the famous Stonehenge monument in southwest England came from 750 kilometres away in northeast Scotland, surprised scientists said Wednesday, solving one mystery but raising another: how did its prehistoric builders move the huge slab so far?Another option was that the...www.yahoo.com
Pretty impressive when you think of all the various topography they would have to overcome if it was just pushed along on log rollers and how did they manage to get it across rivers, they must have surely come across some rivers and their bridge building skills would surely not be advanced enough to hold 6 tonne stones, to push it 750km they must have been ripped to get it up the hills, also how did they know where to push it to ? They wouldn't have a map or roads to follow so there must be some trial & error in the journey where they got lost on the way ?
Good guess. It would be a tiny pebble compared to the Isle of Man.Benandonner probably dropped it and it fell on Stonehenge when he and Finn McCool had finished with their Irish Sea handbags.
Obvs.
I was at Stonehenge a few years ago. It felt quite an eerie place.
Why did the Neolithic people select a particular stone in Scotland over 700km away?
Did they use wooden rollers to move the rocks?
Fascinating.
Must have been a hell of a job that took ages and was not safe to do. Which makes the "why" an even bigger question. It would have been far easier to get a slab of stone the same size from far closer. The biggest stones came from ~30Km away. Bringing a 6 tonne stone from there would have been relatively easy. So why get one from pretty much the opposite end of the island? Also, what was the contact between the two tribes? 700Km is a long walk. Why were the two tribes in contact at all? Can't have been war - the distance is far too large for that to make any sense and there's no way the stone could have been taken as loot, as a trophy. Trade? In what? What was valuable enough to trade 700+ Km without wheels or even pack animals? How did one tribe even know the other tribe existed? Or care? I think that's something else interesting about this discovery - there must have been more connectivity in neolithic Britain that I had thought.
Egypt was a well organised, bureaucratic single state civilisation unified under a single ruler and theres only a single river to punt it down too, prehistoric britain is a little bit differentMy understanding is that log rollers were usually only used for lighter items and short distances. 6 tonnes might be light enough, but 700+ Km is too far. Moving stones within a quarry, sure, log rollers would work for that. But not long distances.
The most likely method for heavier weights and longer distances is sledges. There are surviving ancient Egyptian depictions of it being done that way and modern experimentation has proven that it works. It's hard work and slow going, but it can be done. Multiple ropes can be attached to the sledge and multiple people can pull on each rope. Get it done in an organised way and you can shift weights a lot heavier than 6 tonnes, especially with other people going ahead prepping the way. You can also use seasons, e.g. dragging the sledge over frozen ground is a bit easier. At least one of the Egyptian depictions show a person at the front of the sledge pouring liquid. Maybe just water under the runners of the sledge, which would make the going a bit easier.
Their location was key and there is also the long dried up river Ahramat that branched off the Nile that also helped. There may be other long since gone rivers that branched off the Nile still to be found.Egypt was a well organised, bureaucratic single state civilisation unified under a single ruler and theres only a single river to punt it down too, prehistoric britain is a little bit different
Must have been a hell of a job that took ages and was not safe to do. Which makes the "why" an even bigger question. It would have been far easier to get a slab of stone the same size from far closer. The biggest stones came from ~30Km away. Bringing a 6 tonne stone from there would have been relatively easy. So why get one from pretty much the opposite end of the island? Also, what was the contact between the two tribes? 700Km is a long walk. Why were the two tribes in contact at all? Can't have been war - the distance is far too large for that to make any sense and there's no way the stone could have been taken as loot, as a trophy. Trade? In what? What was valuable enough to trade 700+ Km without wheels or even pack animals? How did one tribe even know the other tribe existed? Or care? I think that's something else interesting about this discovery - there must have been more connectivity in neolithic Britain that I had thought.
Presumably thought it had some magical and/or medical significance theres evidence of the Blue Stones brought from Preseli that people took chips of stone with them particularly those with medical issues/disablility its already known that the area of stonehenge had some unusual geological features that would have been visible in the past like a series of straight lines scored in the bedrock that would have looked like some kind of road, its a glacial feature but would have been quite startling once upon a time especially if you have no logical explanationMust have been a hell of a job that took ages and was not safe to do. Which makes the "why" an even bigger question. It would have been far easier to get a slab of stone the same size from far closer. The biggest stones came from ~30Km away. Bringing a 6 tonne stone from there would have been relatively easy. So why get one from pretty much the opposite end of the island?
Egypt was a well organised, bureaucratic single state civilisation unified under a single ruler and theres only a single river to punt it down too, prehistoric britain is a little bit different
Looking at where the Orcadian basin rocks are accessible it’s all coastal areas pretty much so must have been moved south by boat.