megadread wrote:
tiompan wrote:
megadread wrote:
Just watched a bbc "education" program about the orkneys history. The presenter refering to the ditch as a water filled moat. ha ha.
Colin Richards suggested that the ditch of Brodgar ,when full of water , mirrored the surrounding lochs as the monoliths echoed the skyline .
seriously though, is there any evidence this could actually happen. ive never seen a ditch at any site actually containing water.
there must be pourosity problems. i know of no sites with a ditch made exclusively made from clay.
It's certainly possible at Brodgar, the ditch is rock cut , shallow and wide , unlike Avebury's narrow and deep . Whilst not necessarilly accepting the CR view there are many henges /hengiforms close to water and likely to hold it it .The smaller enclosure at the massive Blackhouse Burn site near Lanark was purposefully built in a bog .
