Posted on 11/29/2006 4:27:10 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
The oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, found in a 1440 manuscript, the Scala Mundi
They got the date wrong by some 3,000 years, but the oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, apparently based on first hand observation, has turned up in a 15th century manuscript.
The little sketch is a bird's eye view of the stones, and shows the great trilithons, the biggest stones in the monument, each made of two pillars capped with a third stone lintel, which stand in a horseshoe in the centre of the circle. Only three are now standing, but the drawing, found in Douai, northern France, suggests that in the 15th century four of the original five survived.
In the Scala Mundi, the Chronicle of the World, Merlin is given credit for building Stonehenge between 480 and 486, when the Latin text says he "not by force, but by art, brought and erected the giant's ring from Ireland". Modern science suggests that the stones went up from 2,500 BC, with the bluestone outer circle somehow transported from west Wales, and the double decker bus-size sarsen stones dragged 30 miles across Salisbury plain.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Hey, that's a dandy site! Thanks for the link!
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Did you know the Caddy in the foreground is the one Hank Williams Sr died in...
You're kidding me.
Anyway I have actually seen Stonehenge and trust me it looks much better in postcards than in real life.
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That so funny don't tell me Freepers busted Dan rather AGAIN
That last line, fake but accurate maybe. There's something in the font used, just doesn't look like one that around yet in 1440.
I don't know the topography of the area. Are there hills directly by it that would allow a bird's eye view of it?
Interesting question. I wondered if it was sitting in the library of someone's estate. I did a search for "Scala Mundi" & this is one of the pages included in my search.
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but Scala Mundi was an historical work, extending from the earliest. age of British history to the iath year of King Henry the Sixth, which ...
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http://library.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/s1-1/1/185
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Does Father Guido Sarduci own it..he has the Last Supoper bill too
"It's only a model............."
Pretty much flat.
Amd they could een play the stuff live too!
Okay, then where did this 'bird's eye view' come from?
My apologies, I was refering to another area{Florida}. I think it could have been attained by climbing a tree at the very least.
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