Re: Arbor Low stone circle - raising of the stones to their original upright position.

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Arbor Low stone circle — raising of the stones to their original upright position.

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thesweetcheat Apr 24, 2013 19:13:20

Replying to Evergreen Dazed

For me, a lot depends on whether the stones were actually deliberately toppled (I'm not sure where this Dark Ages date came from in the original post?) or whether they simply fell over because they were badly erected.

If the latter, it doesn't seem right to put them back up because unless you do *another* bad job, you're not really restoring, you're creating a fiction. Whereas we know as a matter of record that the Avebury stones didn't just fall over, but were deliberately toppled. Just a thought.

Megalithics Apr 24, 2013 21:10:01

Replying to thesweetcheat

If you were going to "restore" the circle, to be authentic, the stones would have to have the same shallow sockets that is currently thought to have been the cause of their eventual toppling. Deeper sockets would mean substantially shorter stones, a big no-no in our book, and we'd be dead against a stonehenge style concrete job or any other modern engineering trickery.

Then there's the problem of the missing stones, replace with guesstimates? stumpy little "site of" markers?

If you were going to use modern replacements, what about the stumps of the snapped stones? They are original, do you uproot them to put a replica stone there?

Would love to see the original, but prefer what's there now to a botched modern re-imagining.