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Ancient people may have moved some of the massive megaliths of Stonehenge into place by greasing giant sleds with pig lard, then sliding the giant stones on them across the landscape, a new study suggests.After re-analyzing ceramic pots that earlier researchers believed were used to cook food, archaeologist Lisa-Marie Shillito concluded that many of those pots may have been used to collect fat that dripped off pigs as they were spit-roasted. The grease would have been stored as lard or tallow and used to lubricate the sleds most archaeologists believe were used to move the stones."Until now, there has been a general assumption that the traces of animal fat absorbed by these pieces of pottery were related to the cooking and consumption of food, and this steered initial interpretations in that direction," Shillito said in a statement. "But there may have been other things going on as well, and these residues could be tantalizing evidence of the greased sled theory."...https://www.livescience.com/65974-stonehenge-stones-moved-with-lard.html
It should come as no surprise that lard was used as a lubricant. On my lathe, lard mixed with around 1/3 turpentine, makes a great threading compound.
That isn't the wonderment. Stones big enough to crush a wooden sledge, in largely swampy ground, over corduroy roads (that the weight would also crush)... The suggestion of lubricants is quite beside the point. Not to mention that there are not enough pigs in all England to make the lard.
There's a highway right next to it.
