Amazingly Balanced Rocks Around the World - 8

Balanced rocks are a geological formation created due to wind/water erosion or glacial melting. These precariously balanced rocks are wonder of the nature and to a viewer it looks that these would topple by a gentle human push or a wind force. However most of these rocks have remained steadfast for past several thousand years though some were vandalised and pushed over. To some scientists these rocks are a sign of seismic stableness of the location.

This post is part of the series about these awesome and breathtaking rocks around the world. List giving links to individual rocks can be seen here and a combined big page showing all the rocks can be viewed here.

Kadov Rocking Stone, Kadov, Strakonice, Czechoslovakia

Kadov Rocking Stone is a big granite boulder, which rests with its centre of gravity on the pointed rock. It used to be easy to make it to rock. Its height is 1.5 metres, weight is around 30 tons and circumference is 11 metres.

Towards the end of 19th century it was pushed down by some vandals and remained on the ground until 1983, when it was re-erected and put into its original position by the team of five enthusiastic volunteers led by Pavel Pavel, a Czech engineer and experimental archaeologist, investigating how the ancient civilizations did transport heavy weights. Using this stone as a model he estimated that only 160 people with wooden sledges would have been necessary for transportation of the 800 ton stones in Baalbek.

It remained on its place for only 4 years and then it was pushed down again. In 1987 it was put back again and several wedges were installed to prevent its rocking and possible injuries caused by its fall. Thereafter it was designated a protected natural product.

Image from Google Maps is by  Lucia Fiřtíková

Image from Google Maps is by Miroslav indrak

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Source of Info: kadov.net (Now available via web.archive.org)

Edit Note July 3, 2020
Dead links/defunct photos removed and new photos added.