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tiompan Mar 8, 2013 20:14:22
Replying to bladup

bladup wrote:
tiompan wrote:
bladup wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
tiompan wrote:
I know what you are saying . Most side stones don't form an ideal sealed box . .
They certainly don't if they aren't in the correct place! (tic)

Ahem...note the trimming :-)

Only the "in correct place " from a particualr 21st C view , not the original builders view . They avoided that box , to the extent the box not only had clear intentional gaps , sometimes it didn't even have any sides .
Do you think Mulfra was open one side or like Chun?
If it was just the backstone that collapsed 18th C? and nothing else was removed then it looks like there would have been plenty room .
Because of Zennors drawing i looked at mulfra in that way, everyone thinks it was a sealed box just like chun when it could in princible be a mix between chun and Zennor, and the collapsed stone maybe wasn't sealing a box but further away like other places, it all works on site.
That's what I imagine . I have never heard anyone suggest it had the type of "box " Chun has .

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bladup Mar 8, 2013 20:28:36
Replying to tiompan

I've read a few times it would have been a twin of chun, it just doesn't work that well on site, because i'd read this a few times i just thought that's how it was, it was only when i was there and compared it to the old picture of Zennor and that design fitted better than the Box i'd read about, it's great that you'd have seen it like that anyway, and it's great how they're all slightly different, even the ones right near each other, just like the people who built them i suppose.