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Re: Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney
Jan 04, 2017, 21:00
Hi DIF .

We don't really know how many stones there were at either site , the 12 and 60 are estimates .

12 is quite a common number , but just as the diameters vary so do the number of stones .Sometimes there are gaps ,sometimes they are contiguous . Depending on preservation , diameter and distance between stones you can anything from an original 4 at four posters lots of 5 and 6's to upper teens ,those with 11 may have originally had 12 , maybe not ,but those with 13 like Dromroe and Cairnwell ,Hatton etc clearly didn't .

Average diameters with like Rollright can have 80 where something bigger can have a lot less e.g. two of the Hurlers at approx 29 each .
Brodgar at much the same diameter as Avebury south had approx. twice the number .
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