Sanctuary wrote:
tiompan wrote:
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