From “Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland”.
Image credit: Lucas De Heere (1573)
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Anything surprise you about this image?
No ropes or EH watchtowers?
Only a handful of Bluestones?
'Only a handful of bluestones?'
Indeed! Odd, isn't it?
Oooh v political SC. No tunnel portal either!
The more schematic Scala Mundi shows none.
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Perhaps medieval illustrators only could be arsed drawing the upright ones? Turfed over or tumbled and broken don't look too cool on yer vellum. Hard to get definition and perspective on what are already small images without cluttering it all up with tumbled detritus - though Lucas De Heere shows some quite edvanced european perspective technique. They were of course not intended to be full plans of the monument!
The difference, I believe, is that the De Heere painting was from a visit rather than a description.
Not that that means it should have to include those pesky bluestones, but it's something to think about.