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Re: For what it's worth...
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Nigel asked me to post a link a sketch that I did showing an alternative method of raising a stone and which shows the idea of using logs to shore up the stone.

I chatted to Mike Pitts at Foamhenge and he said that he thought dropping a stone into a hole, even if it worked, was unlikely to be the method used because it would have crushed the packing stones at the bottom of the hole and that was not observed in the excavations. That evening, the day before the big event, I drew this sketch.

I subsequently scanned the sketch and discarded the paper, so this image is all I have left. Sorry about the relatively poor quality.


I'll try it as an embeded link, but if that doesn't work you'll have to click on this:

http://www.swifttools5.demon.co.uk/raising.png




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Steve Gray
Posted by Steve Gray
22nd November 2008ce
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