Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders is a book by T. Eric Peet. The preface says the aim of the volume is to enable those who are interested in Stonehenge and other great stone monuments of England to learn something of the similar buildings which exist in different parts of the world. The text calls the use of the orthostatic block, the block set up on its edge, the first and most important principle, the one on which the whole of the megalithic construction may be said to be based.
The text says orthostatic slabs were often deeply sunk into the ground where it consisted of earth or soft rock, with good examples of the latter case at Stonehenge, where the rock is a soft chalk. The text adds that occasionally, as at Mnaidra and Hagiar Kim, a course of horizontal blocks set at the foot of the uprights served to keep them more securely in position. One description gives the average size of the cover-slab as 6½ by 5 feet.
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- T. Eric Peet
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- 95
- Language
- English
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- Ancient History
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