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baza B
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.


baz

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Sep 5, 2003 20:07:12
Replying to baza

"I`m very surprised to see that the base of both the stone and hole are sloping."

Yes, I was a bit puzzled by that. The drawing was a little ambiguous as to whether the angle was actually the bottom of the stone or just another case of "not excavated". If the latter it's possible that the stone extends into an unmapped, deeper part of the hole.

I intend to return to the library with lots of tracing paper and an couple of hours to spare instead of the 10 minutes that I had this afternoon. Bearing in mind your comments, I hope to get a better understanding of the data.