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To: billorites

There's something I've wondered about for years, and that is, what happened to the missing stones at Stonehenge? When you look at it, it's obvious that some are missing, and it would be quite a feat to haul one off!

Maybe there just weren't enough stones of a suitable size there in the first place, and so only those were used in its construction. There's enough there to do the astronomical observations and, enough to show exactly where the others should be placed to finish the job.


9 posted on 06/13/2006 8:07:21 AM PDT by RonHolzwarth ("History repeats itself - first as tragedy, then as farce" - Karl Marx)
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To: RonHolzwarth
what happened to the missing stones at Stonehenge? When you look at it, it's obvious that some are missing, and it would be quite a feat to haul one off!

If memory serves (too busy at the moment to check specific sources) many were indeed hauled off for building stone. The same thing happened at nearby Avebury until the authorities stopped the practice.

The same thing has occurred around the world, including at the Parthenon, the Egyptian pyramids, etc. Humans are notorious and inventive scroungers.

17 posted on 06/13/2006 10:05:56 AM PDT by Bernard Marx (Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
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