Wednesday 16 May 2018

The Science of Prehistoric Stone Transport

Déplacement des mégalithes extraordinaires sur le littoral morbihanais, modèles d'embarcations et questions relatives à la navigation atlantique dès le V ème millénaire AVJC

Trans: Moving extraordinary megaliths on the Morbihan coastline (South Brittany), boat models and issues relating to Atlantic shipping from the 5th millennium BC






An interesting and detailed paper to download: The paper is in French, which you being a well educated sophisticate will not find a problem but I did, but the gist is clear enough.


Incidentally I am happy that the Bluestones could have been brought to Stonehenge overland on the "A40 route", but that might just be my prejudice against getting into boats.
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5 comments:

  1. Richard Bartosz16 May 2018 at 10:23

    So whatever happened to your "moving the stone" experiment? Did I miss it?

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  2. Tim Daw16 May 2018 at 10:24

    Not happened yet...

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    1. RackRunner26 May 2018 at 22:52

      Tim- do you have plans to examine the stone for damage/wear patterns caused by the moving the stone across log rollers (or maybe the stone will be attached to a sledge)? Rolling the stone across logs may cause wear patterns that can be helpful in identifying stones that moved in this way in the past.

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    2. Tim Daw31 May 2018 at 13:19

      Hadn't thought of that, but our stones are made of concrete and not planning to go miles across country so probably no, but great idea.

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  3. Richard Bartosz17 May 2018 at 09:10

    I believe the stone is 45 imp.tons. What are the stone's dimensions?

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