Stonehenge Blocks Solution?

[toxicpixie]

That's still at least 1000m of land to get over... which is a bloody long way to carry a 30t block of stone... could there have been canals dug over for that length? I don't *think* so, but it's possible... but a "roller track" (or a set of lengths of grooved timber with ballbearings, moved out from the back and slotted back in front as you go) sounds plausible and is well within the technoclogy and manpower constraints, I think...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I'm with the group who think the easiest way to get the stones to Stonehenge et al from their source is by sea. Cut wooden rollers, heave blocks onto the rollers (or onto a frame on the rollers), roll to the nearest bank of a sizeable river or the nearest beach, turn the rollers into a raft, float stone as near as possible to Stonehenge site, turn raft back into rollers, position stone, rinse and repeat.

They tried that recently, the boat sank like a stone!

[toxicpixie]

They tried that recently, the boat sank like a stone!

They're gonna need a bigger boat...

[Ithoriel]

They're gonna need a bigger boat...

I typed exactly the same thing. Posted it but there's no sign of it now?

Mr. Confused

[Ithoriel]

They tried that recently, the boat sank like a stone!

"You're gonna need a bigger boat!"

The Egyptians carried huge stones by boat, I don't see the Neolithic Brits as any less clever.

[Ithoriel]

OK .... now I'm even more confused!

[Raider4]

I'm with the group who think the easiest way to get the stones to Stonehenge et al from their source is by sea. Cut wooden rollers, heave blocks onto the rollers (or onto a frame on the rollers), roll to the nearest bank of a sizeable river or the nearest beach, turn the rollers into a raft, float stone as near as possible to Stonehenge site, turn raft back into rollers, position stone, rinse and repeat.

So, the quarry in West Wales, down to the coast, onto a raft and across the Severn Sea to Somerset, which was quite a bit wetter than it is now, I believe, so yes, I'd believe a raft/boat could possibly get quite close.

The scary bit would be crossing the Severn estuary - might be more sensible to stick to the coast along South Wales, then across somewhere further up river than the bridges are now. Strong tides though.

[toxicpixie]

I suspect the recreators did something wrong, in some way - anyone got a good link to their methodology?

Like Ithoriel says I can't imagine their boat-tech was substantially worse than e.g. the Egyptians but...

[Ithoriel]

Apparently more recent efforts have been more successful than Atkinson was.

https://blog.stonehenge-stone-circle.co.uk/2012/10/03/moving-the-stonehenge-bluestones-at-last-a-successful-method-is-demonstrated/

[toxicpixie]

That's a nice boat!

That should do the job

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

But it does mention the one 70' beneath Pembroke  Dock!!!

[toxicpixie]

We were there the other week, didn't spot it.

No bruised, broken and battered Boy Sprouts being shouted at by tweedy professors as their makeshift rafts sink, either.

I knew it was all a conspiracy...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I knew it was all a conspiracy...

To you Pixie everything is a conspracy

[Techno II]

What about the theory that the pyramids were constructed of 'cement' blocks that were formed from individual moulds, in situ ?

This is why they fit so perfectly together.....(and why you can't even slip a piece of paper between the blocks.......apparently. )

Anyone else seen that one ?

Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

I believe that's what they say about Inca masonry.