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Re: Alexander Keiller's Avebury/The Sanctuary
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Just sort of moving on a bit, assuming that the Sanctuary is now pretty well dug to extinction with little or anything more to gain from it, would you like to see it re-instated with new stones to give it a similar look to that of Aubreys days to make it more visually satisfying?

Based on the above assumption, then yes.



Big assumption there, it isn't dug to extinction, but to play the game anyway:

Removal of concrete pods - yes, a hologram that appears from my watch phone that reveals what it might have been like - yes, a handful of tma-ers wanting to fake prehistory - no!

Piggott called Keiller's Avebury 'megalithic gardening, Ruskin stated that restoration was 'a Lie from beginning to end.' I'm with them!



Nope, leave the sanctuary as it is, unless proof can be found that those wall stones definitely came from there, then i'd have no objection to them being reinstated, but "new" stones for a reconstruction ? Not for me thanks. :)


Not only are there no orginal stones but the stone sockets of the original stones , and some post holes were damaged by the surrounding pits for stone removal . And in the case of ring C there isn't even an extant section drawing .



The Orchard farm wall stones are thought to be originals from the Sanctuary.


Have you ever noticed that in Stukeley's 1723 drawing of the Sanctuary how Rollrightesque the stones look in type, spacing and apparent size? They are 'craggy' like and nothing like the stones in the WKA for example. I've never heard anyone mention that before.



Yup, and when Pete initially showed me the Orchard Farm stones they had my pulse racing. they do look very "of type" if you will.


They're some of the ones in stukeley's picture, i'd put money on it, someone probably bought them and didn't have the heart to break them up [I hope so at least], they so look the part.




Here you go Paul, took some from the wall and put em back up for you. :)

http://i50.tinypic.com/21b57jr.jpg


That's really really brillant, they look great, the weathered one at the back certainly looks like the one Evergreen mentioned, Great stuff, they even look right next to each other, has pete seen it?



"Has Pete seen it"
The pic ? No i just made it. Sadly not seen Pete since last June.


If he first showed you the stones i'm sure he'd like that, it does look right, we really loved it, i bet it made you smile when you did it?


Can we expect the BH avenue to be resurrected by you next Geoff?



It's certainly possible, but no, it'd take an age. :)


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Posted by harestonesdown
24th January 2013ce
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