[Stones] Earliest (detailed) sketch of Stonehenge

[littlestone]

do you mean that the outer sarsen horizontals are pierced through, as in the sketch, please?

No, none of the Stonehenge lintels are pierced straight through (as far as I know). I guess the person who drew the Stonehenge sketch in the Scala Mundi manuscript was using a degree of 'artistic licence'. M'be when he was there on that day some 600 years ago it was like today, cold, wet and misty, and he couldn't be arsed going up a trilithon to check out the architectural validity of his imagination ;-)

...the material needs to be exhaustively examined before it is presented to the public as an 'historic document'?

Yup, Mike Pitts is involved with the exhibition next year - let's hope he reads this thread.
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