tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post1268912039248626582..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Danger -- engineers at workBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-46578850873638186782011-11-29T16:14:14.273+00:002011-11-29T16:14:14.273+00:00Of course the one that is most visible is in the t...Of course the one that is most visible is in the tunnel leading up to the monument - a bit Village People meets The Egyptians.<br /><br />http://www.jeffnyveen.com/travel/places/england/stonehenge/big/ConstructionMural.jpgTim Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-66731338914143059892011-11-28T14:45:41.794+00:002011-11-28T14:45:41.794+00:00Your picture of Bruce's balls came to mind whe...Your picture of Bruce's balls came to mind when I opened the current Radio Times & saw (p.22), within a feature about Channel 4's "Digging The Great Escape" (Monday, 9 p.m.), a photo of Frank Stone (89) who escaped with 76 others in 1944. He is lying on a mock-up of the escape railway.<br /><br />Apparently the Salisbury Plain's M.O.D.archaeologist, Richard Osgood, took part in the modern dig which made astonishing finds 70 years later.Tony Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-47286033181403489262011-11-28T09:25:54.392+00:002011-11-28T09:25:54.392+00:00Kostas -- I have deleted your latest comments. I ...Kostas -- I have deleted your latest comments. I have not the slightest intention if itemising vast numbers of pieces of evidence simply because you can't be botherered to read the literature for yourself, or because, having read it, you simply refuse to believe it.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-29143047747396109512011-11-27T10:06:10.699+00:002011-11-27T10:06:10.699+00:00Robert -- ever heard of cost / benefit analysis?Robert -- ever heard of cost / benefit analysis?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-49211469908168881872011-11-27T09:43:33.732+00:002011-11-27T09:43:33.732+00:00Brian
I was wondering if Kostas had changed your ...Brian<br /><br />I was wondering if Kostas had changed your point of view!<br /><br />Then you reasoning is flawed as if you stating that one of these system can move stones - some distance (although you wont state how long) but they can't do longer distances as the terrain changed.<br /><br />Most archaeologists will argue that these stones were moved small distances to boats then small distances to the site - which clearly you agree with and that is the basis of 'human transportation' theory for the Bluestones.<br /><br />RJLBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16886732338349957214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-52633468600215668352011-11-27T09:29:04.322+00:002011-11-27T09:29:04.322+00:00Robert -- you are doing a lot of misunderstanding ...Robert -- you are doing a lot of misunderstanding these days. It is self-evident (to everybody except Kostas) that the sarsens and the bluestones at Stonehenge, and the sarsens at Avebury, have been moved using mechanical devices. we don't know what the distances were. what I am suggesting is that the nature of the terrain was more of a limiting factor than distance. Is that clear?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-82488360242936191512011-11-27T08:56:21.471+00:002011-11-27T08:56:21.471+00:00Brian
I'm having difficulty following your re...Brian<br /><br />I'm having difficulty following your reasoning.<br /><br />You suggest none of these methods work therefore all stones must have been found within a 'unspecified' distance of the site.<br /><br />So are you taking metres or miles?<br /><br />If a method can bring stones 'a mile' then it can bring stones any miles with more time.<br /><br />If you are say that these methods can only work over 'metres' - then your saying all the stones come from the site itself?<br /><br />Are you separating the time period and technology of the Bluestones and the Sarsens? - if so how did they move the Sarsen stones?<br /><br />If its the same technology and it can only move metres are you also suggesting that Avebury stones were also laying on the site and stone circles are built not by choice, but at random where the stones lay clumped on the ground?<br /><br />RJLBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16886732338349957214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-46791520211241671022011-11-27T08:31:26.630+00:002011-11-27T08:31:26.630+00:00Thanks Pete --yes, I'm aware that there is a w...Thanks Pete --yes, I'm aware that there is a whole new area of fantastical engineering solutions there, too....... One day I'll get round to collecting the images together.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-79431494248957533002011-11-27T08:29:30.649+00:002011-11-27T08:29:30.649+00:00Kindly explain yourself, Anon. I'm not sure w...Kindly explain yourself, Anon. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-14417456589845399582011-11-26T23:54:20.996+00:002011-11-26T23:54:20.996+00:00don't forget stone rowing!
http://www.stonehen...don't forget stone rowing!<br />http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/Media/StonehengeLive.html<br />PeteGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-84417928788809659192011-11-26T22:45:40.554+00:002011-11-26T22:45:40.554+00:00Primitive tools used by modern people says absolut...Primitive tools used by modern people says absolutely nothing of the capabilities of primitive people. The difference between modern and prehistoric is more than the dress style. But it does show the lengths some people would go to make such connections.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-15706907333900674912011-11-26T17:10:27.003+00:002011-11-26T17:10:27.003+00:00Never trust an inventor-engineer named Bruce, let ...Never trust an inventor-engineer named Bruce, let alone two (Bedlam & Bradley). Sounds too much like those Australian outdoor types beloved of Monty Python! Perhaps there's a cottage industry of Bruce's?? Heaven forbid. Maybe the Python Canadian lumberjacks will get to work on building multiple replicas of the Durrington Walls/ Woodhenge circular buildings. John Cleese has just switched the Christmas lights on in Bath, so he's available locally.Tony Hnoreply@blogger.com