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Re: Line of sight calculator

Dec 14, 2010, 10:22

nigelswift wrote:

Sanctuary wrote:

I see no reason personally why there would have been a need for the two to be connected in a direct visual sense but it would be from the top of the Great Circles bank wouldn't it and that is part of the setup?

It would be strange if no effort had been made to set up a visual link between two wonders of the world that had been built in such close proximity. You might just as well say they weren't particularly bothered about whether Silbury was visible from anywhere in the landscape, which clearly seems to be the reverse of the truth.

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Just to harp back on this, the siting of the hill must have been critical because of the extra work involved in building it where it is when they didn't really have to if the siting was irrelevent. The primary mound, or phase one of around 120ft diameter was staked out on a spur of chalk which projected from what is now the A4 road area. Only a small area of chalk for this initial phase was removed from the spur but a huge amount for phase 2 which included the first ditch. When the final mound was complete with its own ditch it looks to me like about a 5th of the entire size of the hill includes the area dug out of the chalk spur so this must surely indicate that the positioning was critical. If it wasn't then the mound would surely have been built on the higher level ground where you would have done a straight build rather than an excavation first and where it would have been more easily seen from elsewhere because of this extra height.

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