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Analysis of zircon crystals

Littlestone L
Littlestone May 15, 2011 10:44:44
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Has anyone looked at a satellite image of this rocky outcrop? I mean. if it happened to be next to an easy one mile route to a river it wouldn't be proof but it would tip the scales in favour of the human transport speculation quite a bit. It wouldn't even need to be downhill or "easy" as it wasn't at the other end.
Moss reckons the bluestones weigh between 2 and 4 tons – shifting one of those a mile or so would be chickenfeed for those fellas :-)

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 15, 2011 11:10:34
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
Moss reckons the bluestones weigh between 2 and 4 tons – shifting one of those a mile or so would be chickenfeed for those fellas :-)
Yes, it always has to be born in mind the sarsens were (presumably) moved by humans and weighed up to 40 tons.

Bluestones would indeed be chickenfeed. Never mind rollers, if you put ropes round a 4 tonner sixty blokes could simply pick it up and carry it!

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