Transfer to Stonehenge

Stonehenge is the South west of England historic heritage and extraordinary landscape.

South west of England has got one of the world’s best heritage sites; Stonehenge is located in Salisbury within the wonderful Wiltshire countryside.  The best part of inspiring prehistoric construction of Stonehenge in a circle format is referring midsummer sunrise, midsummer sunset and mainly the moon rise from the south and setting down in the north. The Stonehenge stone circle is 320 feet in diameter got a single entrance and unsolved 56 mysterious holes around its perimeter.

The ancient stone circle site construction started in BC 2600. Mystery of how the prehistoric builders built it without any latest engineering knowledge and sophisticated tools to construct a fantastic monument like Stonehenge.

The archaeologists could not describe how it has built without any most modern technology that we use now days, or even so sophisticated equipments to construct the mighty Stonehenge monument.

Transfer to Stonehenge, prehistoric builders transferred the blue stones some weighing four tonnes each from Preseli hills in Wales to south west of England. To transfer from Preseli hills to Stonehenge, most probably they dragged through the land by using human power and animal power. Some suggested they may used the ball bearing theory or the ancient builders used basket like wicker cages to transfer the bluestone from Preseli hills to Stonehenge.

TV presenter and engineer Garry Lavin believes that the ancient builders who built Stonehenge might have used wicker basket to transfer the gigantic bluestone all the way from Wales to Stonehenge.

There is another theory from university of Exeter professor Bruce Bradley believes the transfer to Stonehenge might be done with ball bearing system. The experimental demonstration indicates that gigantic bluestone could have been transferred to Stonehenge by using ball bearing system with more or less ten oxen and may have been able to transfer the gigantic bluestone from Wales to Stonehenge up to ten miles per day, which could have been took the ancient builders roughly about two weeks to complete the transfers. The same method of technique that allows mechanical vehicles and machinery to work effortlessly in this modern day could have been used to transfer the massive standing bluestones more than 4000 years ago according to new theory.

This amazing journey covers almost 240 miles. Once the stones are transferred to Stonehenge, this stones were set up in to two circles outer ring made with Sarsen sandstone slabs and inner ring made up with smaller bluestone that transferred from Wales.

Author: Yasica Norman.