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>> I think if a builder was going to put sarsens anywhere it would be at the corners. Unfortunately, that's
>> also where you'd put them for ritual reasons too.

Can't see any reasoning behind that statement, to be honest. I would have thought that the two places you would put them for 'ritual' reasons would be at the entrance and behind or under the altar (i.e. round the back).

Placing them at corners would define the modern sacred space with bits an old one, but the corners have no Xtian significance. The door into God's house and the altar do have though.

"I would have thought that the two places you would put them for 'ritual' reasons would be at the entrance and behind or under the altar (i.e. round the back)."

Fair enough, and Littlestone's posting seems to imply that might well be the pattern.

That's not QUOIT right !

Sarsens make terrible corners, they are oK undressed in foundations, but most sarsen cottages have brick corners and window cills.

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there is a megalith by the entrance to the consecrated church at Marlborough