Rolling Ronnie wrote:
Coming to this as a complete outsider, so please shoot me down in flames, but why can't oxen have been used? They were domesticated in Europe around 4000bc ?
Hi RR,I think it's probably down to a variety of methods... but I'm not sure as to whether oxen/auroch power would have made it up the slope from the Vale of Pewsey. Of course, it could have been rowed up.... :)
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