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Gordon dispels the myth that hundreds of men were needed in the building of Stonehenge 4000 years ago. In this book he shows how (using descriptions and photographs of actual experiments he has conducted for TV companies) as few as 20 men can pick up a 10 ton lintel stone and put it in place on the Stonehenge uprights towering 20 feet above. How, using the known profiles of the stone holes at Stonehenge, as few as 40 men could have erected the uprights which each weigh as much as 45 tons, and how as few as 60 men could have transported these stones from their origin on the Marlborough Downs 20 miles away. Gordon also looks at the mystery of the ‘Bluestones’ and speculates that the builders of Stonehenge knew how to construct seaworthy wooden boats citing the evidence of the ‘North Ferriby’ boats, the only ‘sewn plank’ boats ever found in northern Europe, which date to around the time Stonehenge was built. He describes how these boats were constructed and shows the details in close-up photographs of a half-size replica.
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