Also, Stonehenge was built (partially) from parts of other stone circles, from as far away as Wales: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203</a>
25-tonne stones for 18km in case you wondered
Or 3928 stone stones<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)</a>
For anyone confused, British people would generally use tonnes (or tons, but maybe not know the difference exactly) and miles.
Or about 3 double-decker buses for the length of 171 footy pitches.
That's not dimensionally correct! Double-decker bus is a unit of length, and footy pitch is too prosaic to be an approved unit: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/bootnotes/2026/05/31/the-reg-online-standards-converter/5248893" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/bootnotes/2026/05/31/the-reg-onl...</a>
It's not too prosaic, it's just too imprecise. There is no standard size, and some regulations even allow a range of sizes.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch</a>
I don't think that's relevant for Register units. Clearly there's a standard brontosaurus somewhere, for instance, otherwise how could we have the conversion table? However, sorry, I was wrong about the football pitch, at least as a unit of area, equal to 194.89nWa per the original article: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2007/08/24/so-whats-the-velocity-of-a-sheep-in-a-vacuum/1281396" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2007/08/24/so-whats-the-...</a>
It's a shame it's not about area then at least we could agree on Wales as a unit.
to clarify for those of a nautical bent - that's about half a blue whale for about 4/5ths of a dozen nautical miles
Strange they don't mention how many stones. Image shows two. There are three today and four, maybe five, originally.
Imperial is confusing at the best of times, but couldn't they have said 24.5 tons instead of 55,000 lbs?
Sir ...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton</a><p>> he long ton,[1] also known as the imperial ton, displacement ton,[1][2] or British ton,[3] is a measurement unit equal to 2,240 pounds
They could have said 3300 stones stones ...
That's the way they like it. American road signs have mad shit like "No trucks over 15,000 lbs".
The American thousands of pounds thing is even more weird than that: I buy gravel from the gravel pit. They weigh my truck and dump trailer in lbs and then charge me per ton. Everyone talks about tons: e.g. I'd call a dump truck operator and ask him to deliver 18 tons of rock, not 36,000lbs. But the weighbridge and road signs and regulations about vehicle and axle weight are always in lbs. If you only read things and never talked to other people you'd never know tons existed.
Surely they don't actually like drill bits measured in fractions of an inch, do they?
Yes, in USA the bits are in fractions and stuff you purchase will have instructions like, drill 3/8 hole for a wall anchor, or 2+1/4 hole for a door-bolt set.
That's because we measure weight in tonnage.
In the EU and UK the weight of the vehicle is on the signs too [0], or the weight per axle [1].<p>[0] <a href="https://hgvlgvtraining.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/weight-limit-traffic-sign-768x188.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://hgvlgvtraining.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/weig...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://freesvg.org/img/B13a.png" rel="nofollow">https://freesvg.org/img/B13a.png</a>
The word for this structure is apparently a menhir: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir</a>. The article calls it the tallest in the UK but its Wikipedia page calls it the second-tallest. This is the actual tallest, interestingly also in Yorkshire: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith</a>.
This must be the origin of the saying, “People who start stone rows shouldn’t build glass houses”.
Must have been a contractor. The permies would wait for the procurement process to pick someone to move those stones for them. /s
Need 7 more paragraphes telling us that the stones, weren't in fact, chosen from the nearest location, but were chosen from a distant location.<p>Without ever telling *how" they were moved of course, that would give out too much