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Stonehenge and its Environs 134

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The bluestone debate

StoneLifter Jun 17, 2006 18:02:52

Replying to Pete G

Long Meg was transported to the site from a quarry, or source, five or six miles northnortheast. A similar O.R.S. boulder was probably taken to Halliwell, Bolton, from Frodsham thirty or forty miles away (the latter is pure speculation as only bits of the stone - still revered however - survive). Any more known ?

nigelswift Jun 17, 2006 19:02:40

Replying to StoneLifter

Devil's arrows? The infill walling of WKLB?

Seems to me there's a rational case for glaciation but it's proponents should have left it at that, as one possibility. Why over-egg it and say that human transportation couldn't have happened? Emphasizing the Millenium Project is a bit selective - it wasn't done right and they didn't have enough people, but there's have been loads of stonemoving replications all over the world that suggest it's not a big deal - it's even a sport in Spain.

Littlestone Jun 17, 2006 20:41:30

Replying to StoneLifter

Another fascinating feature of some of the pyramidal structures (of Teotihuacan) is that they contain a broad, thick layer of mica, which had to be brought from Brazil, over 2000 miles away! If you know anything about mica, it's very flaky and fragile, yet it was brought in very large pieces from great distances (and without wheeled vehicles). Then the mica was used on an inner layer of the pyramid, not where it could be seen. Why?

* http://www.crystalinks.com/mexico.html