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FourWinds
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Re: Woodentop
Feb 17, 2002, 20:29
Ok ... here we are

nice photo ... (except where I have round house marked it is actually another passage grave. There is a fantastic carved stone in Dublin museum from this tomb that I am currently trying to get good access to. It is hidden in a mock up of a passage tomb actually within the passage. I think this could be one of the most important decorated stones there is ... more later.)

The cursus is nearly 70m long.
The wood henge had a circle of burial pits all the way around the inside and so is also a "pit circle". You can super-impose where the henge would have been from the exposed excavation trenches.

http://www.megalithomania.com/ng/ng.jpg

and here's what they reckon the wood henge would have looked like. They do think that there was a mound there at the time of the wood henge, but I believe they think the passage was put in much later.

http://www.megalithomania.com/ng/ng2.jpg

This would have been about 100m in diameter.

The Great Circle is a stone circle that post dates the mound and would have been made of 35 stones with a diameter of 100m +.
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