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Someone on the HA Forum has said to me something that puts a whole new slant on this sight line business - "what if the idea was to have a person or structure on top that would be fully visible from the same locations? So instead of only being aware of it if you knew where to look, something would be obviously protruding above various bits of landscape around Avebury"

Personally, I've always thought a pole or a priest might be what was intended to be seen from Avebury but of course other locations are just as possible.

The truth of studying sight lines is, I think, that we tend to look for them within structures that are the mere skeletal remains of the original landscapes - sans flesh, crops, trees and most of all, a possible forest of long-gone timber monuments and structures. We're guessing about connections that are most probably no longer visible.


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Posted by nigelswift
15th December 2010ce
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