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How long is a timber?

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2008-02-15 06:35.

The diameter of the Stonehenge sarsen circle is about 100 feet. Assuming a slope for the roof of about 40ยบ, that would need timbers of about 70 feet in length. I don't think that's feasible with British trees, but I could be wrong.

It has been proposed that Stanton Drew circle had a roof, but it also had many more concentric circles which would allow the use of shorter timbers. http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~lbull/stanton.html

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