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Stonehenge and its Environs

The bluestone debate

tonyh T
tonyh Nov 19, 2008 16:03:46
Replying to Steve Gray

But you had 50 teams of two oxen..

Do they stretch out in a straight line and have 50 different lengths of rope
runing back to the sledge? or are the kind of fanned out so that the are not in each others way?

Tony

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Nov 19, 2008 20:20:15
Replying to tonyh

tonyh wrote:
But you had 50 teams of two oxen..

Do they stretch out in a straight line and have 50 different lengths of rope
runing back to the sledge? or are the kind of fanned out so that the are not in each others way?

Tony

It doesn't matter, the principle is the same. I would imagine practicalities might dictate a mixture of the two.

Bear in mind that I only posed this as a question, not as a fully-fledged theory.

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