Don't we learn marvellous things here. Because wot you see, like the
iceburg, is not the whole of the matter. g I'll *gurgle* over to to the
web-site you gave below. Many thanks...Pinetree.



"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 22/6/07 01:42, in article 0WEei.6160$xk5.3384@edtnps82, "Pinetree"
wrote:

I'm thinking of rejuvenating an old rock garden. (Think of a
mini-Stonehenge: the boulders are now too heavy and too deeply sunk to
move.
Which makes me wonder if anyone knows how much of those real Stonehenge
boulders (on average) are below ground now four(?) thousand years later
)
snip

We used to have an urgler whose husband was an archaeologist who did some
eminent work on Stonehenge - shame she's not here now! One piece I read
said that the bases of the stones were sunk to five feet.
http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/arch...enge/descr.htm

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
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