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Re: Avebury 'Selected' Stones
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tjj wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
I've been looking through some photos of Avebury I took in 2007 which got me thinking. I wonder if certain perimeter stones forming the actual Great Circle itself meant more than others? This is a photo of part of the North West Quadrant and whilst the majority seem to have been your 'bog standard' type of sarsen albeit of various sizes and shape, one does stand out amongst the section shown and I wondered if that was just by chance or a purposely chosen stone? I've called it the 'Bart Simpson' type as there are others within the site that do take on this somewhat angled flat-topped head 'look'. There must have been easier and lighter stones to use instead of the more bulkier ones so why use them?

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I odd shaped stone in the NW Quadrant had been broken as many of the Avebury stones were in bygone centuries - there is one that looks like that in the SW Quadrant too (as I'm sure you know).


Yes that's correct June. I'm wondering if those stones were 'worked-on' prior to being set into the ground and that is why they have broken up later as they were possibly weakened during this activity? Of course some would have been purposely broken up anyway no doubt in an attempt to remove them in later centuries. I have some more pix to put up later of 'similar' looking stones. We talk of the 'two' types of stone at Avebury, the lozenge type and the more diamond shape supposedly depicting the male and female, but there is also another type I'm sure.


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Posted by Sanctuary
22nd April 2012ce
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