> "Nobody would drag the stones up the Preseli Hills only then to drift them down south to Milford Haven," Ixer said. And going to the sea from the northern slo

> "Nobody would drag the stones up the Preseli Hills only then to drift them down south to Milford Haven," Ixer said. And going to the sea from the northern slopes isn't ideal, either. "You've actually got to make a long sea journey all the way around the south coast of Wales," he said. "So, it seems a pretty unlikely suggestion." I'm not sure about this. It was a massive effort to move the stones in the first place, maybe if you could do most of the moving by boat or raft rather than dragging them all the way, it might have been a worthwhile trade-off. It's a long way from Newport (West Wales, not the one nearer to England) to Salisbury, and the terrain is hard going all the way. We're talking here about people who reshaped Maiden Castle in Dorset by hand, using (as far as we know) tools made from antler and moving the earth in baskets. Who built Silbury Hill using similar methods. Who thought it worthwhile moving these massive stones (and hundreds like them) across the country at a time when any journey was far more difficult and dangerous than today. They were not like us.