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- Need 7 more paragraphes telling us that the stones, weren't in fact, chosen from the nearest location, but were chosen from a distant location.
Without ever telling *how" they were moved of course, that would give out too much
by dgan - Horsesby TZubiri
- Quite easy. They were moved like this:
- Must have been a contractor. The permies would wait for the procurement process to pick someone to move those stones for them. /sby surfingdino
- Lol. First time I ever heard permie as a slur for the second best worker categorizationby TZubiri
- Meanwhile, in Egypt...by JKFSOM
- The word for this structure is apparently a menhir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir. The article calls it the tallest in the UK but its Wikipedia page calls it the second-tallest. This is the actual tallest, interestingly also in Yorkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith.by hashim
- Asterix taught me the word menhir.by qingcharles
- This must be the origin of the saying, “People who start stone rows shouldn’t build glass houses”.
- Lovely.by vogelke
- Strange they don't mention how many stones. Image shows two. There are three today and four, maybe five, originally.by spikels
- Imperial is confusing at the best of times, but couldn't they have said 24.5 tons instead of 55,000 lbs?by ChrisRR
- That's the way they like it. American road signs have mad shit like "No trucks over 15,000 lbs".by masfuerte
- They could have said 3300 stones stones ...by guenthert
- Sir ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton
> he long ton,[1] also known as the imperial ton, displacement ton,[1][2] or British ton,[3] is a measurement unit equal to 2,240 pounds
by Xmd5a - I’m beginning to conclude that about 47% of all ancient activities in England consisted solely of either moving comically huge rocks around, or attempting to convince the remaining 53% to do their fair share.by tomcam
- Ken Follett (of "Pillars of the Earth" fame) wrote a terrific semi-historical* novel called "Circle of Days" that portrays a vivid picture of the people and circumstances that could've led to the creation of Stonehenge.
*"semi" qualifier bc there's so little known for sure -- but it's at least plausible, and his extensive research doesn't contradict things that can be verified.
by chrisweekly - 25-tonne stones for 18km in case you wonderedby dmichulke
- I initially read the title as 55,000 one pound stones. I was thinking, huh that does seem like a lot of work. (>▽<)by wuliwong
- For anyone confused, British people would generally use tonnes (or tons, but maybe not know the difference exactly) and miles.
- Or about 3 double-decker buses for the length of 171 footy pitches.by nickt
- Or 3928 stone stonesby SECProto
- Also, Stonehenge was built (partially) from parts of other stone circles, from as far away as Wales: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203by cjs_ac
- and at least one stone came from Scotland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c207lqdn755oby graemep