What are megaliths made of?

[Boreades]

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[TisILeclerc]

Why would they pick particular stones in the first place?

And why blue?

[Boreades]

Were they particular what stones they used?

Some might say that specific phases of Stonehenge used specific stones. But that doesn't prove it was by design, any more than the new wing to Château Boreades having bricks of a different colour to the originals. You can't get that kind of brick any more. So the builders had to make-do.

[TisILeclerc]

I'm quite sure they were particular.

After all you don't spend a thousand years or so sticking wooden posts then stones in the ground for fun. Do you?

And then putting them things up. Could you do it? I don't think anyone today could do it. This is serious stuff. Man.

Ho ho.

[Boreades]

The wooden posts stuck in the ground at Woodhenge are given a rather nice visualisation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tm8CVIANrw

The main problem (as I see it) is having any idea which post-holes belong in which phase of construction. Were all post-holes containing posts at the same time, or did it expand outwards in phases as their engineering skills improved? Or as the public demanded a bigger venue?

As in, the O2 Arena of its era.

[Boreades]

I don't know what it is about YouTube videos that attracts the profanities and ranters.

But, anyway, if you ignore the comments, this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs
is a useful demonstration of how very large stones can be moved quite simply by a small number of people. Brute force is not necessary, except perhaps in (or on) the minds of the trad.archeos. Apologies if you've seen it before.

[Boreades]

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Would one expect a few bluestones to have been dropped en route?

Yes, but they would be difficult to find in the Severn Estuary or Avon Rivers.