[Healeys] Left is right

[Guy R Day]

<snip> They noted that at the point where the quarry entrance/exit had been, 
the earth was more compacted on the right side of the entrance than on the 
left. Obviously wagons .... arrived empty and left full, so when they came 
in and when they went out, they always drove to the left <snip>

You are saying that if the ground was more compacted on the right it means 
the heavy vehicles leaving the quarry were on the left?
And wasn't this observation one made in an Italian quarry - or so my 
internet searching said!

GRD

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> At the risk of prolonging this topic overlong, I remember hearing a 
> puzzler
> on Car Talk Radio a few years ago.
>
> Seems that the archaeologists had discovered the site of a prehistoric
> quarry sight in Britain using infrared photography or some such. From the
> photographs they were able to conclude that even in prehistory, Brits had 
> driven
> on the left. The puzzler was: How did they know that?
>
> The answer, once you hear it is obvious. They noted that at the point 
> where
> the quarry entrance/exit had been, the earth was more compacted on the
> right side of the entrance than on the left. Obviously wagons, tumbrels, 
> or
> whatever they were using to haul the stones arrived empty and left full, 
> so when
> they came in and when they went out, they always drove to the left.
>
> So, Brits have been driving on the left side of the road for longer than
> recorded history.
>
> Imagine that.
>
> Best
> Gary