#19: The Tooling
The builders shaped the sarsen stones using stone tools, likely including hard hammerstones to pound and dress the surfaces. English Heritage notes that the earliest earthwork ditch was dug with simple antler tools, reminding us that the whole project depended on materials that sound almost laughably modest compared with the result. Antlers, stones, ropes, wood, muscle, patience. Stonehenge is impressive partly because the toolkit sounds like something from a camping trip gone wildly over budget.
