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It reads very interesting, thanks for that, I know some of the techniques that are still used regular, with rope and wedge, but like the log on top and on the bottom and the rope, I have never seen it like this before, it looks absolutely construction usable. I can't say what the ancients did or didn't have developed but they did do things 'big' and must have had quite a few techniques.
I think you have proven that there is alot of experimental research that is worth a closer look.

J.

Hi Jo-anne
Thanks for that. For the record, all I seek to do is prove what was possible in the Neolithic. I will leave to those better qualified to decide what was probable in regard to megalith moving.

If I do no more in the future, I have at least opened up the debate and shown that Neolithic man may have actually picked up the megaliths in order to move them, rather than drag them along, something that, as far as I know, has not been considered since Stukely.

Hi Mike
You are probably right, I often talk a load of bollocks, so in my defence I'll quote the words of Charles Darwin;

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness: and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened."

Perhaps you would like to prove to me that heavy stones cannot be picked up and moved with wooden levers.