|
 Log in |
Register
|
|
 Head To Head The Modern Antiquarian Stonehenge Forum | Start a topic | Search |
61 messages | Select a forum: |
Littlestone wrote: Silbury incomplete ? Hmmm, an interesting concept, faced with the sheer size of it, that you'd get all the way to the beginning of the hard bit and give up. Unless I'm mistaken, Nigel is saying that Silbury was once complete, with a Stonehenge-like structure (or Stonehenge itself?) on the top; he'll correct me if I'm wrong about that but it's certainly how I imagine Silbury may have once looked. Silbury's original height has almost certainly been reduced somewhat and that might account for the lack of evidence of a structure once being there. Maybe the lack of a structure is all the evidence you need !! To be honest, I can certainly see Silbury with a timber structure at some point, but the idea of moving 50-ton stones up slippery, crumbly chalk that has not settled yet...I know they did amazing stone-moving feats, but I struggle just walking up the thing !! Reply | with quote |  4th January 2007ce 11:14 In reply to: Re: Stonehenge-on-Silbury (Littlestone) |
Messages in this topic: |
|