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Bright Side says a chemical study of the great sarsen stones may show where Stonehenge’s builders got them. The monument has two families of rock. The sarsens are the heavy ones, on the order of 25 tons, and they form the outer ring. The smaller stones are called blue even though a fresh break only shows a blue tint. The channel matches the sarsens to a hard sandstone formed long ago and later found in pockets under clay and chalk. Because builders reused that rock for centuries, the video asks whether every sarsen shared one source. Newer tests, it says, place them in a forest close to the site. Empty sockets at an older circle suggest that some smaller stones were moved from an earlier monument, so Stonehenge sits in a wider landscape. The work took several stages across hundreds of years. Carrying blocks on ice is rejected because that age was warmer, and floating the sarsens is rejected because they are too heavy. Nobody, the channel concludes, has shown how the stones moved.
Key points
- Bright Side distinguishes heavy sarsens, about 25 tons, from smaller stones that only look blue when freshly broken.
- The sarsens are described as an ancient hardened sandstone later found in scattered pockets.
- Newer tests, as the video tells it, place the Stonehenge sarsens in a forest near the monument rather than in one distant quarry.
- Some smaller stones are said to have been moved from an older circle, so the site belongs to a larger landscape.
- Ice transport is rejected as too warm a climate, river flotation as too heavy a load, and the moving method is left unknown.
Short quotes
are the super heavy sarsens and the lighter and smaller blue stones the sarsens each weigh about 25 tons that's
Bright Side, Scientists and the Stonehenge Stones
The channel’s size claim is that each great sarsen weighs on the order of 25 tons. Watch at 1:07
100 miles (160.93 kilometers) that's not too realistic anyways this theory was debunked because it was warmer back then than it is today
Bright Side, Scientists and the Stonehenge Stones
A long ride on ice is set aside here because that age was warmer than the present. Watch at 6:09
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