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There would be as much work involved getting the angles right on a 30-sided polygon as curving each stone to a set pattern, though quite how the curve could be translated from a 30th of a circle with primitive measuring techniques and sloping ground is beyond my 20th-Century brain...but certainly the overall effect would be more impressive with a curved arc than multi-sided.
Yes, that's pretty amazing when you think about it. I suppose it's not definitive but that sort of attention to detail (curved lintels) might suggest that Stonehenge was conceived and constructed where it now stands - not brought from elsewhere. Not sure if there's a great deal of logic in that observation however - I can still see it once sitting on top of Silbury quite nicely :-)

Littlestone wrote:
There would be as much work involved getting the angles right on a 30-sided polygon as curving each stone to a set pattern, though quite how the curve could be translated from a 30th of a circle with primitive measuring techniques and sloping ground is beyond my 20th-Century brain...but certainly the overall effect would be more impressive with a curved arc than multi-sided.
Yes, that's pretty amazing when you think about it. I suppose it's not definitive but that sort of attention to detail (curved lintels) might suggest that Stonehenge was conceived and constructed where it now stands - not brought from elsewhere. Not sure if there's a great deal of logic in that observation however - I can still see it once sitting on top of Silbury quite nicely :-)
I seem to remember reading that certain measurements at both sites match up quite closely - the ditch and the base of the mound, the 30 uprights and the top of the hill...but that was a while ago and I have no idea where I saw it...