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- cjs_acAlso, Stonehenge was built (partially) from parts of other stone circles, from as far away as Wales: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203
- dmichulke25-tonne stones for 18km in case you wondered
- ChrisRRImperial is confusing at the best of times, but couldn't they have said 24.5 tons instead of 55,000 lbs?
- spikelsStrange they don't mention how many stones. Image shows two. There are three today and four, maybe five, originally.
- hashimThe word for this structure is apparently a menhir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir. The article calls it the tallest in the UK but its Wikipedia page calls it the second-tallest. This is the actual tallest, interestingly also in Yorkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith.
- ButlerianJihadThis must be the origin of the saying, “People who start stone rows shouldn’t build glass houses”.
- surfingdinoMust have been a contractor. The permies would wait for the procurement process to pick someone to move those stones for them. /s
- dganNeed 7 more paragraphes telling us that the stones, weren't in fact, chosen from the nearest location, but were chosen from a distant location.Without ever telling *how" they were moved of course, that would give out too much