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Kammer Sep 1, 2004 09:16:49
Replying to FourWinds

...but like you said, they needn't have been entirely covered. So long as the sides were consumed by the cairn (or theoretical cairn) then the tomb would be... er... tomb-like.

Without some sort of material around the sides, there would be nothing to stop people or animals from squeezing in through the gaps. I'm not sure that this would necessarily be a problem though.

Now I'm confused!

K x

F FourWinds
FourWinds Sep 1, 2004 10:13:28
Replying to Kammer

The builders were not unaware of corking. The chamber in Newgrange is waterproofed with sticky stuff between the stones.

I personally favour the partial coverage up to the capstone theory for most of them. The thing with this is that there is no definitive evidence to support any theory. If the lack of absolute evidence is evidence then the evidence says the tombs were not completely covered because none exist that are completely covered.

Oh .. and the majority weren't tombs ... bugger, there goes the apple cart!

F FourWinds
FourWinds Sep 2, 2004 07:18:57
Replying to Kammer

>> Without some sort of material around the sides, there would be nothing to stop people or
>> animals from squeezing in through the gaps. I'm not sure that this would necessarily be a >> problem though.

Depending upon the beliefs of the builders this could have been positively desired.