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tiompan Sep 4, 2012 22:48:32
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tjj wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The heyday of the polished stone axe seems different in different places and times and avebury may have been the heyday place of that region, the size been explained by the amount of old paths that converged there, some later axes were only polished on one side in lincolnshire and elsewhere.
No , in Britain including the Avebury area the heyday was before Avebury was built .
We have to ask the question - were the Avebury and Avenue stones already there, just lying around as they are over at Lockeridge. The fact that a few of them had been used to sharpen axes may have been coincidental. The Avenue stones seem to have been worked so perhaps the axes that worked them were sharpened in situ as they were erected.
By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use .

B bladup
bladup Sep 4, 2012 22:52:39
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
tjj wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The heyday of the polished stone axe seems different in different places and times and avebury may have been the heyday place of that region, the size been explained by the amount of old paths that converged there, some later axes were only polished on one side in lincolnshire and elsewhere.
No , in Britain including the Avebury area the heyday was before Avebury was built .
We have to ask the question - were the Avebury and Avenue stones already there, just lying around as they are over at Lockeridge. The fact that a few of them had been used to sharpen axes may have been coincidental. The Avenue stones seem to have been worked so perhaps the axes that worked them were sharpened in situ as they were erected.
By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use .
Not quite, they don't have the finds, you know that's why avebury's known as a neolithic site, it was falling into disuse by the Bronze age, and stonehenge starts to take over as the main place of the region.

H harestonesdown
harestonesdown Sep 4, 2012 23:22:25
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
tjj wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The heyday of the polished stone axe seems different in different places and times and avebury may have been the heyday place of that region, the size been explained by the amount of old paths that converged there, some later axes were only polished on one side in lincolnshire and elsewhere.
No , in Britain including the Avebury area the heyday was before Avebury was built .
We have to ask the question - were the Avebury and Avenue stones already there, just lying around as they are over at Lockeridge. The fact that a few of them had been used to sharpen axes may have been coincidental. The Avenue stones seem to have been worked so perhaps the axes that worked them were sharpened in situ as they were erected.
By the time Avenue was being built bronze was just about in use .
Ah, Bronze orientation day. !

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