“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.” |
Stonehenge Links: Stonehenge Decoded: National Geographic http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/stonehenge-decoded-3372#tab-Overview Stonehenge Visitor's site http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/ PBS: Stonehenge FAQ's http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stonehenge/qanda/ What Lies Beneath Stonehenge? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-lies-beneath-Stonehenge-180952437/ |