Stonelifting timeline

Possibly the oldest stonelifting artifact in existance. The stone of Bybon is a 143.5kg (316lb) stone inscribed with the text:

Bybon son of Phola, has lifted me over head with one hand.

A 480kg trachyte boulder supposedly lifted by Eumastas with his bare hands.

Inscribed on the stone is:

Eumastas, son of Kritobolos, lifted me off the earth.

The oldest liftable historic lifting stone we know of. Difficult to precisely date but some evidence suggests the stone may have been lifted before the turn of the 11th century.

it is said, allow no youth to bear the warlike spear, or join the ranks of war until he lifted one of the Bodachs.

Brynjólfur “Sterki” Eggertsson carries the 281kg (619 lb) Brynjólfstak around 50 meters from the shore to its current spot.

Sannomiya Unosuke lifts Japan’s heaviest power stone — the 610kg 大盤石 — on the day of the Inari Jinja festival to an amazed audience.

Donald Dinnie carries a pair of stones across the width of Potarch Bridge (17 feet 1.5 inches). Donald and his father, Robert, used the stones as counterweights.

David Webster OBE rediscovers the Dinnie Stones on the bank of the River Dee. The ring on the large stone was missing.

Jack Shanks becomes the first man to lift the Dinnie Stones unassisted after Donald Dinnie himself in 1860.

Jan Todd becomes the first woman to lift the Dinnie Stones, successfully putting wind beneath the stones using wrist straps.

The Húsafell Stone features at World’s Strongest Man in Iceland as the final event.

Ironmind publishes Of Stones and Strength, written by Steve Jeck and Peter Martin Sr., the seminal book on historic stonelifting featuring stones from around the world.

Laurence Shahlaei becomes the first man to surpass the distance of the width of Potarch Bridge with the Dinnie Stones by carrying the stones 22’ 4” (6.8m).