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Stone Shifting 2

I`m with FW on this.

The only way to demonstrate how to move a 40 ton stone is to actually move a 40 ton stone.

I can see problems with doing that. There`s a big difference between rowing a stone around a car park and rowing one across the countryside.

The ground isn`t flat and it gives way when large forces are applied to it. Laying logs along the side of the stone to act as fulcrum points wont work so easily on undulating ground. You must work out a way to get the fulcrum points in relative alignment with each other and *do it*.

Compared with raising a trilithon, this is the easy bit. It`s also *the major revelation*. The far more difficult task of erecting the stones utilises your lever principle to move the stones vertically and is a *secondary* major breakthrough.

baz

I must add:

Move a 40 ton stone 50 yards on Salisbury Plain and you`ll get world-wide recognition.

Funding for *the big one* will follow much more easily.


baz

As I see it, from an archaeological viewpoint, stone rowing is by a mile more important than erection. However I would like to prove that the same small workforce using the same crude logs and levers could have erected the stones as well.

From world wide news point of view erecting the stones in the way I imagine is headline news but also of archaeological importance.

Let's get some practise at both with a 10 ton stone, we're gonna need it.