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nigelswift wrote: Silbury incomplete ? Hmmm, an interesting concept... Well, of course the top could have been sliced off subsequently for some reason, but assuming that isn't so then I'd say yes, definitely incomplete. Why? Because it just looks that way - quite offensive in fact, like a snail bereft of its shell. Its not a huge assumption to think that the builders probably shared our sense of what looks right, ergo... Assuming it would have been chalk-white when 'completed', possibly surrounded by water, maybe it looked a lot better than it does now. Maybe they didn't care if it 'looked' complete or not! Of course, there was no A4 passing within yards either, and it must have been incorporated into the whole Avebury/Avenue/Sanctuary complex so would have had a different perspective. I just find the combination of Silbury and upright stones [at least on the roof] doesn't add up - timber uprights maybe, a ring-fence and maybe even a processional way lined with posts, but even with the immensity of the tasks they undertook moving sarsens across miles of open country, there is no way they would be able to drag 50 tons up that slope [you ever tried a pushchair ?]. Reply | with quote |  4th January 2007ce 11:09 In reply to: Re: Stonehenge-on-Silbury (nigelswift) |
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