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Hi Faith thank you for your reply
I don’t know how my comments got on your page, I was only referring the new theory that the small caved balls found in Scotland were used as bearings on wooded tracks to move the stones across country to Stonehenge.
However the mauls are the pounding stones that were used to shape the sarsens, I believe some of them have been found in the backfill holding the standing stones in position, nothing very unusual in that. The sarsens would have had a lot of on site shaping to fit them together so the mauls would have been used in the circle as well as in the quarry. Throwing one or two down the hole with some rubble to hold a stone in place im sure would have been done several times. If you ever work on a building site you see an awful lot of stuff gets buried on site. And seeing as Stonehenge was never finished anyway, and there be no use for any left over mauls if it had been, then they get used in with the back fill.
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