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Re: Newgrange: quartz and granite wall
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GLADMAN wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Without the steel reinforced concrete support the wall would collapse .


That has always been my understanding. From a purely engineering point of view, are there any known prehistoric structural techniques that could have achieved the façade we now have?



With that type of material , and the fact that it is vertical ,I don't believe so .


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Posted by tiompan
17th July 2016ce
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