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Re: Another million lines

Dec 17, 2010, 10:04

nigelswift wrote:

thesweetcheat wrote:

But the problem comes that it's sometimes difficult to separate those times when he was drawing what he saw (but we can't see because it's gone since his time) and those times when he was drawing his own speculative reconstructions.

Sure. But on page 68 of Stukeley Illustrated it shows his "View near the spot of the termination of the Beckhampton Avenue" and he both writes and draws "the track of the Avenue" and shows only 4 (prostrate) stones. That seems like he recorded what he saw and didn't embellish it.
I'm sure there WOULD have been a pretty old track there as a long distance track terminates just behind his viewpoint I think, so it would be bound to carry on to the henge. I'm inclined to think his illustration on that occasion was as close to a photograph as he could manage.

What that doesn't tell us though is whether his "track" was an Avenue (stones or no stones) If I was building a stone Avenue I might get a bit peed off at the extreme ends and just mark it with pebbles.

I'd really like to know if there was originally a 'Sanctuary' on the termination of the BA to pair up with 'tother one! And if as you say there is a trackway present (must get my map out) then possibly adjacent to it is the place to start looking for it.

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