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nigelswift wrote:
Well spotted. ;)

BTW, when I said it was a totem I wasn't meaning to promote the idea of it having a totem pole in it, something that has flashed round the internet based on a bit of a journalistic flourish probably. A buried totem pole is just a bit too daft to count as a reasonable speculation I reckon.

Aye, but then sticking a whacking great oak tree upside down in a wooden circle might also be seen as a bit daft :-) There's no accounting for taste with those pre-history fellas :-)

Littlestone wrote:
Aye, but then sticking a whacking great oak tree upside down in a wooden circle might also be seen as a bit daft :-) There's no accounting for taste with those pre-history fellas :-)
That's very true. The textbooks are full of theories but never the simple explanation that "this was built at the whim of an absolute ruler who was completely off his trolley".