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Has anyone ever wondered how an upright stone can swivel through 90 degrees and then lay nicely down flat at right angles to the central trilithon ?

The current altar stone is in a really strange position in relation to where it was supposed to be - it appears to have jumped from its socket, twisted round 90 degrees, moved across 6 feet and then laid down perfectly at right angles, all with another stone crashing down on it. In other words, it never stood up on end.

Which leaves at least one socket to be filled...

In other words, it never stood up on end.

Quite.
Possibly.
What Inigo saw, or thought he did, was the remains of a Roman altar - something he would have been very well informed about. They weren't all upright. http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:ZTW_rsBX3TIJ:community.iexplore.com/photogallery/displayFeaturePhoto.asp%3FID%3D144198+roman+altar&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=21&ie=UTF-8
and some even had a groove - http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:YPncHR0gWTQJ:lexicorient.com/egypt/luxor06.htm+roman+altar&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&ie=UTF-8

Anyone fancy checking out his sketches and notes from Stonehenge and his sketches of his stage designs? http://ipac.nal.vam.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1172N0187K833.1427&menu=search&aspect=basic_search&npp=10&ipp=20&profile=nal&ri=&index=NA&term=jones%2C+inigo&aspect=basic_search&x=16&y=9#focus#focus#focus#focus