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Re: Ball bearings used to build Stonehenge
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moss wrote:
Its only another theory but interesting nevertheless.......

"Scientists showed how balls placed in grooved wooden tracks would have allowed the easy movement of stones weighing many tons."

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.[...]tonehenge_says_expert/?ref=rss


It seems the first known use of the wheel was in Mespotamia in 3,500BC
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/wheel.htm
Did wheel technology make it to Britain by the time Stonehenge was built? Because if the wheel wasn't being used then ball bearings seem a little sophisticated. There was a theory a while back that the stones were rolled on logs - seems more feasible.


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Posted by tjj
18th November 2010ce
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