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The Great Trillathon
The Great Trillathon includes the most finely worked stones on the site. It is in the small space framed by these three stones that the midwinter sun is captured when it sets each December. The lintel and one vertical of the Great Trilathon lie crisscrossed on the ground over the altar stone, but the remaining vertical reveals further secrets of the stone masons. How did our ancestors lift a massive lintel seven meters high and lower it into place with such accuracy? No one really knows how Neolithic people moved these heavy objects when they had no access to metal or wheels.
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