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Steve Gray
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Re: Alignment of Holes
Sep 09, 2003, 10:16
We could also just use a heavier anchor stone. I'm pretty sure a 20 tonner wouldn't budge, but the lintel is 10 tons, it will be on site and we don't need to erect it until the uprights are in place. The stakes are just adding braces to the belt. The stakes might work by themselves if they were deep enough (3 feet or so?), but the anchor stone just makes sure that the rope can't pull them up.

It was a very tongue-in-cheek suggestion that it might explain some of the holes. Although it could be argued that any apparent astronomical alignment of the Aubrey holes may just be coincidentally related to the astronomical alignments of the outer sarsens. There are the Y and Z holes too. Could these have been for the erection of the trilithons?
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