Did anyone else grow up with the impression that stonehenge was small? It's fricking huge
Did anyone else grow up with the impression that stonehenge was small? It's fucking huge
Did anyone else grow up with the impression that stonehenge was small? It's fricking huge
literally how did they do it
No, seriously, just watch the video. It demonstrates how they actually did it.
how do you move massive blocks 200km by pivoting them on little rocks in dirt
the massive blocks came from the Marlborough downs about 20 miles away, you are thinking of the smaller bluestones which make up the inner ring (they probably took them by boat most of the way).
By making V-shaped ditches with smooth bottoms (of clay, mud or limestone) you can "glide" very heavy objects with minimal amounts of water ontop of rafts.
Paths like these make up a significant amount of the Welsh border, and have been misinterpreted as defensive ditches my many moronic historians.
Raising the stones was never really the thing that surprised me, it was adding the stone on top between the two other stones
They had druids levitate them up
>It demonstrates how they actually did it.
No, it demonstrates one way they may have erected the stones. It doesn't demonstrate how they got the rocks over there in the first place.
20 miles is a huge distance to transport stones of that size without modern technology.
So they spent 10 years building a 20-mile lined canal which allowed them to float the stones, including passing over hills (somehow)
Makes sense
I can see it happening with wooden structures with ramps, a lot of rope, a lot of manpower, and enough coordination and planning.
>literally how did they do it
With cranes.
Wtf that's how they did Karnak and Abu Simbel too
Wow
> impression that stonehenge was small
I blame Windows XP for that.
I used to play the shit out of pic related when I was a kid which had a stone hedge level. I was convinced it was big, just not as big as it actually was since the game devs did a somewhat good job making them huge
my wife loves that game
Mediterranean talent for architecture has been a thing since prehistoric times, always making wonders.
Get a life Giuseppe
Yes. 99% of the photos you see of stonehenge are aerial shots, so it throws the perspective off and makes the stones seem about half as big as they really are.
I went there and it was really not that big
That's because they make you stand like 100 meters from them because people kept taking chunks of the rock as souvenirs.
t. Have also been
im still pissed cause I didn’t know that. the trek up the hill was so anticipative and then such a disappointment. you can only go up to it on the solstices and equinoxes at dawn.
>hundreds of stone circles
>no but we must le talk about this singular one in england!!!!
Post your local stone circle and prove it's not ignored because it's objectively inferior to Stonehenge.
Stonehenge is an utter scam, lrobably the biggest tourist trap in Europe.
Not really. I've been to many stone circles in Spain, France and the British Isles, and Stonehenge is by far the most impressive simply because of the sheer size and the arches themselves.
That being said, the Carnac Stones of Brittany and Newgrange are very underrated.
Another cool thing is the smaller megalithic sites that aren't tourist traps. I was driving in Spain and came across a isolated dolmen tomb; 3 stones supporting a flat stone on top. 4000 years old, pretty cool.
Its literally a circle of rocks. How do you turn up to stonehenge and get angry when it has never been depicted as anything other than a cirle of rocks in a field?
Are you kidding me?
The location sucks, it’s next to a busy road, the price of the ticket is mad expensive (25 bucks!) and you can’t even enter the structure, just circle around it from like 20 meters away. There isn’t even a small museum or some shit next to it with explanations/archaelogical insight.
It’s just a low effort scam somewhat extremely advertised by british tourism. Meanwhile you can visit absolute kino prehistoric places like the Chauvet cave in France for a quarter of that price with a guide.
scotland is unironically better for these sort of outings. even loch ness had urquart castle ruins you could frick around in
Yeah that's cool but we have part of a neolithic city
That's a village
But yeah it's pretty cool
Looks like modern frickers ruined it for muh tourism
I'd still smoke some weed there though, looks cool
Wait till you see what stone henge looked like before they reassembled it
reminder that stonehenge was built in the 19th century
How long until some paki destroys it for idolatry
Yo isn’t this the thing that just got blown up by a bomb lmao
Only if ur moronic.