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Re: The bluestone debate
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Just finished reading that Gordon - very impressive.

Two things struck me. Firstly, that you've convincingly demonstrated that it would have been possible to move the bluestones in the way that you describe (and presumably it would have been even quicker and easier for the people who actually did move them because they would have had centuries of experience on which to draw).

Secondly (and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere), is that moving big stones (bluestones or otherwise) would presumably have been done when the ground was hard - in other words during the colder months when the crops were in and there wasn't much else to do. That being the case (moving the stones in winter), would people not also have taken advantage of ice and snow to slide or 'sleigh' the stones - if not all of the way then perhaps along some sections of the route?

It kinda brings me back to the above suggestion that transporting the stones might not have been an 'either or' situation but a combination of various factors - just a thought.


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15th June 2006ce
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