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Stone of kerb used to polish axes??

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tjj Sep 5, 2012 11:48:38
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
tjj wrote:
Could I ask a question - apologies in advance if it is a naive one (probably something I should know). The stones along WK Avenue appear to have been worked - what do you think was used to shape them. I thought about this a bit last night - stone axes would have been fairly useless surely when it comes to working on sarsen.

It feels as though there is a missing link here - something that has been lost in the mists of time, that archaeology has not been able to unearth.

To work sarsen as at Stonehenge and West Kennet : use of sarsen , skill , strength and time , both for the gross shaping and also the more subtle dressing .There has been the suggestion of the use of A frames , close to the Stonehenge avenue sarsen chips have been found surrounding the "shadow " of a monolith .
Was just about to log off until this evening but will come back to this - what do you think they used as implements Tiompan. What you posted about copper from Ireland and bronze just coming in is very relevant as was reading about how bronze was made just the other day (also used tin from Cornwall). Still don't think they had anything we would consider hard enough to chip away at sarsen.
Will think about it some more while out and about ... ponder, scratch head etc.

T tiompan
tiompan Sep 5, 2012 12:04:37
Replying to tjj

Sorry , TJJ maybe I should clarify ,I was suggesting that sarsen was the implement to use , on sarsen . Hand held direct percussion , an A frame with a lump held in a sling etc .

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