toasted-whippet wrote:
I'm sorry if this has been done before...
It has but don't know how to find it . An excavation might help clarify .There seems little doubt about the pits and their width but not what they contained , timber posts are possible but as we don't know the depth of the pits we can't guess at a possible height of the posts . Roger Mercer suggested something like a ratio of 1:3 iirc for a max height . If they were pits for timbers then it would seem a waste of energy to have metre wide timbers cut down to a couple of metres or less .The depth of the ditch is unknown and I don't believe there is any way of knowing the height of the bank if there was one . Just grazing through some youtube vids with a bottle of red wine, when this one suggests stanton drew was a venue for bloodsports!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulpQqzO2EFA
Then watch one about the Sanctury at Avebury by digitaldigging, and the same thought is niggling - they made it look like a paintballing venue.
This shocked me - is it a view with any credibility?