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Steve Gray S
Steve Gray Sep 5, 2003 17:30:57
Replying to Steve Gray

Well, I'm back from Middlesbrough Library and I have to say the news is not good for Gordon's method. The excavations of the trilithon holes were not very deep, so the data is a bit inconclusive. However, there is a nice cross-section of one of the outer sarsens. It's the most northerly of the part of the outer circle that is still standing. It looks like the builders dug a ruddy great yaw in the ground and then hauled the stone upright within it. They must have had ropes all round to stabilise it while they packed the area with chalk rubble and earth. If you dropped a stone into that hole it would just fall over again.

Here's a link to the tracing I did at the library: http://www.swifttools.com/Hole.gif (the captions were added after I scanned it).

So, I guess Gordon's claim to fame will have to be stone-rowing after all.

G GordonP
GordonP Sep 5, 2003 17:52:57
Replying to Steve Gray

Looks bad from that drawing but its the wrong hole, stone 56 is the one we want.

B baza
baza Sep 5, 2003 19:44:37
Replying to Steve Gray

That hole just doesn`t look right to me, considering that stone 27 would have to have been precisely placed to be in the correct alignment to stones 26 and 28.

I`m very surprised to see that the base of both the stone and hole are sloping. The outside of the circle is to right of the diagram and that`s the side it seems that the stone entered from. If the stone was tipped in, then I would have expected it to land further to the left and have to be manoeuvred to the right while in an upright position.

I would expect the weathered soil to be a later ingress into the hole.


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