Digit wrote: Parts have been added, other parts have been removed, some have been modified.
A child who watched stage one being constructed would not have lived to see stage two.
A bit like the Bible!
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Digit wrote: Parts have been added, other parts have been removed, some have been modified.
A child who watched stage one being constructed would not have lived to see stage two.
Digit wrote:A drum, for example, beaten at the correct repetative rate, would have matched and reinforced the reflected sound to amplify it far above what the drum could produce.
The sub-sonic harmonics could have been felt by those people within the circle, and if the interior was smokey, hence a roof? because of the smoke, actually have been visible!
IF all of that is correct it would have been a totally overwhelming experience for those within the circle and a demonstration of power without equal.
Digit wrote:No modern church would compare.
Digit wrote:I had a clearout of books some time ago Shark, small house, but all that I have quoted can be found via the internet. Some of the sources are only amongst the records of learned societies and need quite a bit of chasing down.
Much of what I've posted is done so from memory I'm afraid.
The papers from such as the British Academy are wonderful in that, starting with some of the early ones, you can follow the development of a theory and the sometimes heated debates that follow.
The British Archaeology mag is a good source as well and copies of back issues are downloadable.
BBC Wales and the Pembrokeshire Arch Soc are also big on the subject.
Digit wrote:Quite possibly Bob, but, again, like everything else about SH, possibly not.
If Take a look at the inner stone 'horse shoe' and see if you note anything of interest.
I won't say more as I would like to hear your ideas.
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