So a 6 tonne stone was transported from Scotland to Stonehenge 5,000 years ago

[Hagar]

Is there evidence that they had boats capable of carrying the weight in Britain ~4500 years ago?

It would be a raft if anything, several trees tied together. The main argument against a boat or raft is how they loaded the stone onto a floating platform.

A crane and a dry dock would have been handy. I suppose they could use the tides and just roll the stone up a ramp onto the raft. That may give them six hours or so to get afloat.

Poling it along the coast without getting too far from shore and beaching at night would be likely avoiding storms it would take at least a month. Coming down the river Dee And whatever tributaries and marshland there was on the Welsh borders would be my guess then aiming for the Severn, Avon and or the Wye aiming for Wiltshire and the finish line.

Some mighty Druid magic there, he must have been a wise and clever leader.

 

[jeffspuds]

It was the rock the man himself

 

[arknor]

Is there evidence that they had boats capable of carrying the weight in Britain ~4500 years ago?

theres ancient cornish tin ingots that were found on a 3000 year old ship wreck off the coast of Israel.

It's not a huge stretch to think someone moved 6 tonnes 4500 years ago just around the coast of britain

 

[mrk]

theres ancient cornish tin ingots that were found on a 3000 year old ship wreck off the coast of Israel.

There is no record stating how much volume of the ingots found, only that only several were analysed by scientists that confirmed they sourced from Britain so some trade must have been taking place between this island and the Mediterranean some ~3000 years ago. The only specs mentioned is that each ingot weighed 10-15KG. Do you really think that a boat carried enough of them to weigh 40 tonnes+? And that was just some 3000 years ago, not the even further back as what's being discussed above.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Is there evidence that they had boats capable of carrying the weight in Britain ~4500 years ago?

There was an attempt at a reenactment some years ago using a raft or boat to move a large stone with whats known about boats from the time by sea it sunk after a 100 miles or so

There is no record stating how much volume of the ingots found, only that only several were analysed by scientists that confirmed they sourced from Britain so some trade must have been taking place between this island and the Mediterranean some ~3000 years ago.

Tin was rare in the bronze age theres only cornwall and one other place in the mediterranean area where its found whereas copper the other ingredient of bronze is common. Cornwall was so famous in the ancient world britain was known as "the tin isles" and believed to be the origin of the word "britain" itself. Even after the fall of the roman empire the Byzantines were visiting cornwall to trade for tin, by boat

 

[mrk]

 

[C@ppy1961]

They were really big lads back then....

 

[Joxeon]

Interesting video.

 

[zaniro]

When visitors of Easter Island enquired about how the Moai were brought to the cliffs across the island the natives said they walked. The visitors rolled their eyes. Only recently have people found by mimicking rocking from side to side to be an effective way of moving them.

 

[Gerard]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846985179539112309

Something along these lines maybe? Little bit creepy

 

[mrk]

When visitors of Easter Island enquired about how the Moai were brought to the cliffs across the island the natives said they walked. The visitors rolled their eyes. Only recently have people found by mimicking rocking from side to side to be an effective way of moving them.

That's fine for those statues though which have a certain size and weight. Much of the above is in relation to clean cut squares of stone taht weigh 40 tonnes each all the way to hundreds of tonnes each!