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Gordon,
I never met a dumb carpenter!

“fulcrum logs!? Movable, placed longitudinally do you mean? And we were wondering how the levers got under the stone. I suppose if you left gaps between the cross logs, that would do it, or were you thinking of something else?

“40 men could move a 40 ton stone”… blimey, that certainly would make all the other attempts to replicate stone-moving look a bit puny. Sounds like you should organize a race! Better still, they’re hoping to lift an Avebury stone next year, using “villager power”. I don’t suppose they’d let you mess with a real stone but it would be a perfect occasion for you to do a demo with a block.

I reckon you’ve really hit gold with this.

Do you think cursuses were stoneracing tracks?!
;)

Hi again Nigel
Yea, four logs longitudinally, two to rest the stone on, two for fulcrums.
(Have another look at the photos on the site)

In theory as few as four men can move a stone of forty tons.(not far though)

Regarding Avesbury, given a chance I'll have a go at owt.

PS only a dumbhead would ask!!! What are cursuses?

Comic genius nigelswift...comic genius - no sarcasm!

(Sure this a half-arsed definition Gordon, but a cursus is an embanked path or possibly ritual processionway often associated with henges or other pre-H stuff.)

love

Moth