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bladup Mar 6, 2013 19:07:45
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It doesn't look right because the back end of the capstone has pushed the backstone into the chamber and was then lucky [or forward thinking builders] to then rest on the side slabs, making that crazy sloping angle, it would have had a slope but not that much, Why didn't you talk to us all while writing your book?

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bladup Mar 6, 2013 19:19:47
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bladup wrote:
It doesn't look right because the back end of the capstone has pushed the backstone into the chamber and was then lucky [or forward thinking builders] to then rest on the side slabs, making that crazy sloping angle, it would have had a slope but not that much, Why didn't you talk to us all while writing your book?
I must say though in Stonefrees photo [row 6, 2nd from the left] it certainly looks like the 2 sidestones are the wrong way round, if they were the other way around they'd make a perfect slope, but that means the whole things been down at some point, but it hasn't, Has it?

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Sanctuary Mar 6, 2013 19:20:21
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bladup wrote:
It doesn't look right because the back end of the capstone has pushed the backstone into the chamber and was then lucky [or forward thinking builders] to then rest on the side slabs, making that crazy sloping angle, it would have had a slope but not that much, Why didn't you talk to us all while writing your book?
Why would I want to do that for Paul, you don't understand the quoit more than I do about flying to the moon :-)
You claim to get all these 'feelings', that great, but it obviously doesn't help you to understand them. I never go by feeling but by what I see before me IN DETAIL.
Sorry, but that was a bit of a rant.