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stonefree May 2, 2011 12:13:59
Replying to Resonox

Thanks Resonox, that's a very good question.
I believe that the potential use of the quoit as a tomb would necessitate either the open aspects being covered or the whole structure being buried. This would prevent the alignments and optical dynamics from happening or being observed, so IF (and I think it's a big if) the structure has ever been used for burials, it would probably have been much later, perhaps after the astronomical and optical functions had been long forgotten.

This would definitely be my Tardis destination, not only to find out Who, but also How and Why! :)

T tiompan
tiompan May 2, 2011 12:21:30
Replying to stonefree

stonefree wrote:
Thanks Resonox, that's a very good question.
I believe that the potential use of the quoit as a tomb would necessitate either the open aspects being covered or the whole structure being buried. This would prevent the alignments and optical dynamics from happening or being observed, so IF (and I think it's a big if) the structure has ever been used for burials, it would probably have been much later, perhaps after the astronomical and optical functions had been long forgotten.

This would definitely be my Tardis destination, not only to find out Who, but also How and Why! :)

As has already been pointed out to you , burial deposits are and covering cairns common in this type of monument , the big IF is the putative astronomy unknown from portal tombs .

T tiompan
tiompan May 2, 2011 12:39:21
Replying to stonefree

You have failed to answer my question of why you falsified a quote of mine never mind other reaonable less personal points . Such behaviour doesn't bode well for any evidence when it does come . I don't mind the odd nutty idea but your attitude and poltroonish inabilty to respond means , like Roy , I will no longer respond to your blethers as it will only mean I get banned and I wouldn 't want that to happen because of a prat .

R Resonox
Resonox May 2, 2011 14:44:06
Replying to stonefree

stonefree wrote:
Thanks Resonox, that's a very good question.
I believe that the potential use of the quoit as a tomb would necessitate either the open aspects being covered or the whole structure being buried.
Not essentially...as many tombs and vaults are indeed uncovered, I wasn't discounting one use or the other but wondering why a tomb couldn't have some sort of astrological significance and actually be used as both...perhaps as some sort of channel to the afterlife(guesswork in my phrasing as I don't know any of the ideas behind the building purpose or design.) via the solar movements. Someone once tried to convince me that NO chamber or dolmen was EVER designed as a tomb because no remains are found in them(I won't go into the wrongness IMO of that idea on so many levels as its too drawn out), but this reckoning would preclude such buildings having ever been used as tombs after the original purpose was "forgotten" too...my pointing this out fell on deaf ears as did my simple counter-argument)
stonefree wrote:
This would prevent the alignments and optical dynamics from happening or being observed, so IF (and I think it's a big if) the structure has ever been used for burials, it would probably have been much later, perhaps after the astronomical and optical functions had been long forgotten.
Can astronomical and optical functions be of a temporary nature...perhaps as a one off useage..just to add "sacredness"(that word again) or esteem to a grave/tomb/vault to facilitate passage to the afterlife? That way they are still both yet not either or(if that makes sense?).