One of the Stonehenge trilithons (right) still showing its tenon (top)
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Another attempt is to be made next year to solve the mystery of how the largest stones used to build Stonehenge were moved reports BBC News Witshire –
In 1996, a BBC TV programme aimed to find out how the stones for the largest trilithon were put into place, and how the lintel was placed on top. Since then the concrete replicas have remained untouched and forgotten about at an army base on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. They have now been rediscovered and the experiment will be repeated.
Archaeologist Julian Richards is teaming up with farmer Tim Daw to see if modern techniques are any more efficient.
More here.
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14/11/2014 at 11:31 am
stonehengenews
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14/11/2014 at 11:35 am
nancy wisser
This is exciting!
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14/11/2014 at 12:31 pm
Roy Goutte
I still like the ‘cotton-reel’ theory of transporting the stones but still a mighty task! Erecting the uprights so that they have level tops was a work of art considering you couldn’t just pull them out again and dig a bit deeper or pack them up a bit more. It was real precision stuff from the onset. I feel the effort and time taken far surpassed many of the reasons given for its build. People had been around for 1,000s of years already and knew all about the actions of the sun/moon/stars and their alignments and when they were going to happen without needing a structure like this IMO. Stonehenge had another far more important purpose and that was probably connected to life/death itself. When your life expectancy was so short, you didn’t spend it building monuments…unless their real use was for another time…the Afterlife?
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