We were driving home from a day out in North Yorkshire earlier on this year and as we passed Boroughbridge on the A1, we decided to take a detour to see The Devil's Arrows.
This alignment of three standing stones was erected in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age between 5000 and 3500 years ago and they consist of some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom. Two of the stones are located in a field and the third, larger one, is across a road.
Early accounts record varying numbers of stones, usually four or five but one account records seven standing stones.
They're composed of Millstone Grit and thought to have been quarried and transported from Plumpton Rocks nine miles away.
The stones are spaced unevenly and run from north-northwest to south-southeast.
The southernmost stone is the second tallest single standing stone in Britain, 6.9 metres, taller than any at Stonehenge.
You can read more about The Devil's Arrows if you click on the photo above. Isn't it amazing how man was able to transport huge stones, which are believed to weigh anything from twenty five tons to over forty tons, all that distance without any form of machinery. It's also amazing how they're still standing after thousands of years, withstanding erosion and anything else which has been thrown at them in all that time.
That sort of thing always amazes me. HOW in the world did they DO it? There was a man in Florida that built the Coral Castle all by himself and he did it at night. No one has ever figured out how he did it. He has been dead for many years but it is from this generation and not thousands of years old.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link if you are interested. I find it amazing and visited there when I lived in FL.
https://coralcastle.com/
Oh wow, that's amazing. How sad that he died without letting anyone in on his secret. As for building huge stone structures thousands of years ago, I just can't even begin to imagine how that was done.
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