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slumpystones Jan 3, 2007 18:04:16
Replying to Littlestone

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...

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jan 3, 2007 21:35:10
Replying to slumpystones

I seem to remember reading that certain measurements at both sites match up quite closely...
Yes, I remember that as well but I don't have a reference either. If Stonehenge was brought from elsewhere then the fact that the area it now occupies corresponds (closely) to the area at the top of Silbury, it leads to the not unreasonable conclusion (taking in other factors as well*) that that's where Stonehenge came from (unless those particular dimensions held some special meaning to prehistoric builders, in which case other examples might be found elsewhere).

The idea that Stonehenge, or a Stonehenge-type structure, once occupied the top of Silbury is not as wild as it might seem - there are examples from other parts of the world of temples, even whole cities, being dismantled and then reassembled elsewhere, or old structures being deserted and new, similar structures being built elsewhere.

* http://www.eternalidol.com/ “What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”