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The week before the feast was almost entirely given up to bringing in large slabs of stone to finish the graves of the year's dead. It was astonishing what weights were moved, and across what country. Only manpower was used, but until one has seen what can be done by it, properly handled, one can have no real conception of its efficiency. Once one has seen it, Stonehenge and Avebury are comprehensible. I always wished I could hear Namkia, who had dragged, and superintended the dragging of, many stones in his time, give his expert opinion on those two monuments. |
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The working rule is to carry uphill and drag down. To take a stone up a slope it is built into a horizontal scaffolding, an arrangement of stout poles lashed together on either side of and behind and before the stone, allowing perhaps a hundred men to surround it to take the weight. |
