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As davidmorgan comments: "roll (or raft) them down to Newport and pop them on a boat." If I understand these things correctly, there was a fair certainty at the time that there would have been a very good covering if ice/snow every winter with the climate being what it was?
'They' could therefore count on perfect conditions for moving any large stones - in the knowledge that, even if they didn't get where they wanted in one year, there'd be another perfect sledging winter not too far off. IF therefore humans took the bluestones from Preseli to Stonehenge, they would have had completely different 'surfaces' to use compared to those which we are used to. Whether via Newport or Milford Haven seems neither here nor there....I wonder if there are examples from elsewhere where huge stones etc have been transported over ice or packed snow?
I rather think that ice is going to end up being the only logical answer....but I am not yet convinced that we humans had to be involved.
I seem to recall Sherlock Holmes nugget: 'Once you have excluded all other options, whatever remains (however unlikely) has to be the answer.' So far, I don't think the glacial idea has been properly addressed in a thorough way by a combination of geology & archaeology - it has merely been dismissed?
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