I'm reading Stonehenge Deciphered: A Critical Reading of Geometry, Landscape, and Intention by Alun G. Rees (2025) and I noticed his explanation of a possible way to raft the Bluestones from Wales. It is fairly standard and one I have often used, though I'm a dryland route man by preference. I'm surprised a few commentators think it is a new theory though.
I used an illustration by Billy Colfer from a Newgrange book to show it back in 2012, I seem to remember that millstones quarried from cliffs in Ireland were moved in a similar manner in more modern historical times.
The diagrams are from the excellent book "Newgrange".
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