alt Hacker NewsDevil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row
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Imperial is confusing at the best of times, but couldn't they have said 24.5 tons instead of 55,000 lbs?
Strange they don't mention how many stones. Image shows two. There are three today and four, maybe five, originally.
The word for this structure is apparently a menhir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir. The article calls it the tallest in the UK but its Wikipedia page calls it the second-tallest. This is the actual tallest, interestingly also in Yorkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith.
This must be the origin of the saying, “People who start stone rows shouldn’t build glass houses”.
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Must have been a contractor. The permies would wait for the procurement process to pick someone to move those stones for them. /s
Need 7 more paragraphes telling us that the stones, weren't in fact, chosen from the nearest location, but were chosen from a distant location.
Without ever telling *how" they were moved of course, that would give out too much
Also, Stonehenge was built (partially) from parts of other stone circles, from as far away as Wales: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203