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Re: Stone of kerb used to polish axes??
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bladup wrote:
Go and sit at the polisher in the avenue and pretend to polish, it's perfect where it is, the fyfield downs polisher was stood up as well and the main polisher outside the second chamber on the left in west kennet is stood up as well, 3 stones, all polishers and all were stood up when used, honestly just go sit at the 2 still stood up and you'll see what i mean, and when you compare the avebury polishers with the coldrum one, the coldrum one doesn't really convince me, as the markings seem quite natural.


Haven''t been to the avenue - hell, Avebury itself, drive throughs excepted - for a decade. Strange that. Needs rectifying.

Re the Coldrum stone. I was also less than convinced at first... but upon subsequently comparing the erosion with the other kerb stones I reckon there's a good chance the local authorities are right. For what that's worth. To my eyes the wear is completely different to the others, therefore strongly suggesting it is not natural. Stand at a distance and let the light play on it in different ways and you might agree.... Or not. And of course several millennia of additional weather damage would have distorted what was there before as well.


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GLADMAN
Posted by GLADMAN
4th September 2012ce
18:27

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