“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible
accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a
hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a
minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag
a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an
upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus
some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can
party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator,
I'll tell you that.”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island
accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a
hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a
minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag
a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an
upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus
some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can
party!' Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator,
I'll tell you that.”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island