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Littlestone
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Re: Slaggyford Stones .
Sep 10, 2011, 19:10
There is no way that Silbury could have looked much different due to soil mechanics . From our perspective no matter how impressive , it's the fact that it was man made that is most important .


That is not quite true – it could have looked very different but, as you rightly point out, soil mechanics (perhaps more accurately geotechnical mechanics here as Silbury is not strictly made of soil) would have dictated the shape (if it were indeed just a mound of heaped up material). But Silbury is not a mound of heaped up material - it is, actually, a very sophisticated structure, and could have looked like anything the builders wanted it to look like. It would certainly have had a tiered aspect when the final stage was first completed.

But sorry, that’s all beside the point; the point being that art (rockart or otherwise) is a construct of the human mind not the human hand – simply taking hammer and chisel to a material is not the only way to elevate something to the status of art.
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