Temple of Sulis 5
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Temple of Sulis

Royal Circus

tiompan T
tiompan Aug 5, 2007 17:15:57
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Stukeley, who was also well into that malarkey, reported that the top of Silbury was 60 cubits....
The problem with cubits is that they vary enormously , Stukeley's druid's cubit = 20.8 inches but you can add or subtract as much as 5 inches for other cubits .

N nigelswift
nigelswift Aug 5, 2007 18:16:09
Replying to tiompan

I think there's something going on with this lot, though I don't know what.
A while back, I mentioned on here I felt there was something "just right" about the Stanton drew NE Circle and someone else said they had felt the same thing.

So maybe there's a proportionality issue, not just a size one - i.e. the relationship between the diameter of the circle and the height of the uprights, at about 6:1 ..........

http://www.heritagecities.com/pdf/aerialofcircus&rc.jpg
http://www.stonepages.com/england/stantondrew.html

;)

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