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Temple of Sulis

Royal Circus

goffik G
goffik Aug 3, 2007 16:07:26
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
I was fortunate to stay in a Wood building just round (no pun ) from the circus in the early 70's ,rent was a pittance . It's the NE circle at Stanton Drew and the sarsen circle at Stonehenge that have the same diameter (29.6 m) , coincidence ?
Lucky you - it's lovely round (again!) there, isn't it?

Apparently it WASN'T a coincidence! He was well into that malarkey, although it's also the same diameter (or length, at least) as the Temple of Soloman (as mentioned in the Bible - '3 score cubits'), which, I think, is where it all tied up.

In the correct order, I think he visited Stanton Drew (being only up the road), then Stonehenge, then remembered that the length of 60 cubits was mentioned in the Bible. From memory... :o/

G x

T tiompan
tiompan Aug 3, 2007 16:29:13
Replying to goffik

goffik wrote:
tiompan wrote:
I was fortunate to stay in a Wood building just round (no pun ) from the circus in the early 70's ,rent was a pittance . It's the NE circle at Stanton Drew and the sarsen circle at Stonehenge that have the same diameter (29.6 m) , coincidence ?
Lucky you - it's lovely round (again!) there, isn't it?

Apparently it WASN'T a coincidence! He was well into that malarkey, although it's also the same diameter (or length, at least) as the Temple of Soloman (as mentioned in the Bible - '3 score cubits'), which, I think, is where it all tied up.

In the correct order, I think he visited Stanton Drew (being only up the road), then Stonehenge, then remembered that the length of 60 cubits was mentioned in the Bible. From memory... :o/

G x

I don't accept a lot of the It is quite impressive ,of it was a third of the size then it would be a bit more coincidental but two monumnets relatively close

N nigelswift
nigelswift Aug 5, 2007 14:55:50
Replying to goffik

"Apparently it WASN'T a coincidence! He was well into that malarkey, although it's also the same diameter (or length, at least) as the Temple of Soloman (as mentioned in the Bible - '3 score cubits'), which, I think, is where it all tied up."

Stukeley, who was also well into that malarkey, reported that the top of Silbury was 60 cubits....

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