Ben van Kerkwyk
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Off the top of my head, maybe, Jamie, you can find out.
Ming Dynasty, right.
Yeah, they say the story on that is like some ruler said, like, carve me a dragon.
They're like, sure, boss.
And they started trying to get this block out.
And then eventually some foreman went, yeah, maybe we can't deal with this stone anymore.
Doesn't seem real plausible to me.
That's the size of the Yangshan quarry block.
Yeah, thousands of tons of that.
And what they were doing there, I do not know.
And I do not know when they did it.
That's the weird thing is there's so many sites.
They're huge, huge nubs.
Yeah, they're different.
Well, so another option, I mean, something else I've heard is that in some places they could have been mounting points for something that was grabbing them or hanging onto them, some tool to finish the wall.
That was another theory that came up.
No, I was just looking around.
Do you get Japan megaliths maybe?