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Re: Line of sight calculator
Dec 11, 2010, 12:45
nigelswift wrote:
Was it deliberately filled with water originally? I don't know. It would need to be deliberately lined with clay but how can that be known when clay would tend to accumulate over time anyway?



'In 1886, Mr Pass made some excavations and proved that a ditch 15 to 20 feet deep had been dug round the base; this ditch is now completely silted up, but if open it would be full of water all year round, being below river level'.
(An Introduction to the Archaeology of Wiltshire. M E Cunnington 1949).

It that is the case then of course it would be completely full for longish periods of the year and lower at worst at other times, clay lining or not!
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