And the answer you come up with...
"No way, Jose" (well in Neolithic Spain, perhaps)
;o)
The sarsen circle has uprights that support two lintels each. The whole circle could not possibly be raised in one go, therefore the lintels were put on after the uprigths were erected. There's no reason to suppose that the trilithons were any different.
Reply | with quote | Posted by Steve Gray 17th September 2003ce 21:53 |
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