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Stonehenge

Stone shifting 5

I'm glad this has come up.
We can do a specific demonstration of the point, and photograph it.
4 experiments for the price of one now!

I've been thinking of others, involving simply the way we present things, rather than much extra work, e.g.

1.) A small stone can represent a Bluestone recreation, not practice with a small sarsen.
2.) Practicing putting stones upright can be the recreation of the erection of a standing stone.
3.) Although we may not be able to do much where the big stones are, we can put smaller stones through their paces on different terrains that would have been encountered on the journey to Stonehenge e.g. smooth, rough, up, down, fords. It is often said that it would have taken 600 people to get the large sarsen up the big hill (forget the name) between Avebury and Stonehenge. If we can find it’s gradient and take a ten tonner up such a slope using a small team we’ll have proved our point.

I'd rather take a 40tonner up that hill with 40 men, that would leave no room at all for argument

Although it doesn’t show on my plan,
“The entrance to the circle was deliberate as evidenced by the width between stone thirty and stone one being wider than all the others and conversely stones twenty-nine and thirty and stones one and two had their widths decreased to make up for the added width between stone thirty and stone one.(Atkinson 39)”
We must check whether the wide gap is trilithon-upright width and if so we can replicate accordingly.