Trethevy Quoit 11
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Trethevy Quoit

A clean slate? (or should that be granite?)

StoneGloves S
StoneGloves May 6, 2011 18:20:08
Replying to nigelswift

If it was a symbolic structure - which we may assume it was - then the race wasn't for time, nor longevity, but for the limits of endurance and effort. Putting the largest possible capstone at the most impossible angle, maybe.

T tiompan
tiompan May 6, 2011 18:35:46
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
If it was a symbolic structure - which we may assume it was - then the race wasn't for time, nor longevity, but for the limits of endurance and effort. Putting the largest possible capstone at the most impossible angle, maybe.
Angle isn't impossible but the capstone almost is . http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1037/carrickglass.html

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