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I was up at Mitchell's Fold again today. Fantastic site, even better in the clear blue chill of a November's day.
On page 75 of the small 'pocket size' Burl book there's a picture of the site with 'Medgel', the tallest (6ft) stone toppled in an act of vandalism in 1994.
I've a couple of questions about this.

The Medgel stone was (quite rightly) re-erected. But it's got very flat worked sides, I wonder how accurately they were able to re-locate the stone?

What is the accuracy in re-erecting stones? For instance, the Avebury stones can't be in exactly the same place, just because they found where the original holes were, can they?
But Medgel must have had much more recent and precise measurements regarding its alignments and angles do you think?

Secondly, looking the picture in the Burl book, another stone looks toppled too. There's a stone about four foot tall to Medgel's right, but on this picture it appears to be lying down.
Was more than one stone toppled at Mitchell's Fold in the June 1994 attack?

And lastly, what bastards for doing that!

>For instance, the Avebury stones can't be in exactly the same place, just because they found where the original holes were, can they?

Yes they can.
When the stones are packed into the hole they settle and create a mould around the bottom of the stone in the chalk.
Stone holes excavated on the beckhampton avenue since 1999 show a definate shape to the remaining side and the stone can be accuratley matched to the hole.

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/ArchRev/rev94_5/mitchell.htm

Re Mitchell's Fold. AS I suspected from the Burl photo, two stones WERE toppled. They must have gone to quite a bit of trouble to do this. They'd need tools & organisation.
A pot of paint this ain't!
I wonder why?