Perfectly accurate
The fingerprinting of the sarsens of Stonehenge is fascinating. Though it took nearly three years and was a year late.
Seems that most of them are of the same type and probably from the same area. Even the Heel Stone! Which, as it is undressed and there’s a pit close by that it could have been pulled from, is surprising. As well, I thought there were at least two types of sarsen, orange and purple. But this seems to be unimportant — now.
Again, Brian John picks apart the ‘Durrington Shafts’ and points out that even the authors think that the northern arc is likely natural.
It pisses me off so much that the Stonehenge area has become so full of big junk science. It’s hard to get to the small truths.
Some of these holes (none are shafts) could well be sarsen extraction pits, which is far more important and has been ignored in this recent paper.
I posted these photographs to the Wanhao Duplicator 7 Facebook group a year ago, but, oddly not here. Catching up.
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Rendering of the four sizes. In bright copper sarsens, rusty iron bluestones and grass with numbers base. More variation examples here:
http://stonehen.ge/200th
76th scale 514mm square T2 83mm high (20¼” 3¼”)
35th scale is 1116mm square T2 180mm high (43¾” 7″)
24th scale Trilithon Two is 26 cm high or 10¼ inches, plus the chunk of grass. And there’s 200th scale removable full model of the whole circle.
These are rendered models. I’m just printing and putting together the prototypes. There are several variations to pick from, including colours of stones, base maps and sizes.
This is, for the time being, a rough guide to the possible variations. At the end of the Kickstarter, you will be sent a survey where you can decide what your configuration will be. A mix of material, patina, a combination between sarsen and bluestone or the same, which maps, which sizes.
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Aberystwyth University did some computer simulations of the last ice age.
I couldn’t get the flv files to play nice nor the kmls so converted and uploaded to Youtube.
I’m fascinated with this one stone, Stone 59. (But, fickle is what fickle decides to be
When Stone 59 fell, it broke into three major parts: the bottom, turtleback a; middle b and tenon c. I guess the other chunks, particularly the right, top corner of the middle chunk (59b) and the lower right corner of the bottom (59a) have been taken. Perhaps there is a flaw in the sarsen down that side.
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A fallen upright, from Trilithon Five. The top of Stone 59 showing the tenon. Interesting circular percussive injury bottom right. The nasty wound is approx 2 feet in diameter.
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Barney Harris has worked out the man-hours needed to craft the stones. Fabulous stuff. I see that it is the lintels that took the longest. I hadn’t thought of that.
They have six sides to dress where the trilithon’s uprights have a back that is left rough the buried side that wouldn’t have had much attention, though the inside face would be polished smooth, the two walls wouldn’t, as they show lots or remaining working lines. Continue reading “How long to build Stonehenge?”