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Re: Rectangular holes in stones
May 26, 2009, 23:59
Rhiannon wrote:
I'm not sure you could do it with anything but metal though could you. So that suggests Not Prehistoric... and so, some kind of implication for whatever the stones Mr Soskin was looking at.


I don't know if any evidence has been found using other softer metals as Lewis 'irons' or even pieces of other shaped stone but I can not see why not.

I too watch the programme and remembered using a similar method when making a type of mortise and tenon joint in wood at school. In this case a wedge is used to splay the tenon apart as it is pushed into the mortise giving a very tight joint that did not require pining or glueing.
This then made me wonder if this method could have been used fix together the many wooden structures instead of wooden pins or rope.....just a thought :o)
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