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Anonymous
User not Registered |  New Message Posted!2005-11-16 11:02
Shropshire Traveller
Tallest in Wales (as far as I am aware) is the Fishstone on Glanusk Estate between the A40 and the River Usk close to the village of Tretower to the west of the market town Crickhowell in Powys.
can't remember the height offhand, but I posted up a photo of it on the Modern Antiquarian.
not as bulky as Bryn Gwyn, but probably taller.
Close by is one with the highest elevation in Wales, Maen Llwyd up on the Black Mountains.
elderford
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-14 19:44
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On 2005-02-10 18:35, Thorgrim wrote:
Largest prehistoric megalithic building - Great Pyramid of Giza
Largest pyramid - Pyramid of Quetzacoatl, Mexico
3.3 million cubic meters (built when? AD surely)
Largest artificial mound in Europe - Silbury Hill
Largest artificial mound in the world??? How to define? cubic meters? length? height? Are the tells of Iraq mud-brick clad mounds or built pyramids?
Gotta getta life - gotta getta life...
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Thorgrim---
The largest pyramid in Mexico and in the world BY VOLUME is the Great Pyramid in Cholula, not the Quetzacoatl pyramid. Cholula is 450 X 450 metres(1476 X 1476 ft) & is 66 metres high (217 ft). By volume it is 4.45 million cubic metres. Probably the biggest purpose- built structure in the world. Giza is 2.6 million cu. metres. The Iraq tells are just mud-brick "ruins" of towns, built one upon the other over many years/centuries, aren't they?
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Jimit
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-02 13:59
The Grand Menir Brise has a pretty good claim http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=9311 but pretty sure that some of the Egyptian stile(?) are bigger.
Do they count?
Jim.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-11-01 20:32
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On 2005-11-01 12:30, DavidRaven wrote:
... And the largest single standing stone in Britain is reckoned to be the Rudston monolith in North Yorkshire 
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Rudston is actually the largest in the British Isles, followed by Punchestown. There was a 10m tall stone in Co Mayo until the late 1800s.
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-01 16:50
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On 2005-02-07 13:00, Anonymous wrote:
Does anyone know what the largest megalith in the World is and where is it? Also which megalith do you think has the best story behind it? - ones with good history or a mystery surrounding it. Thanks.
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For info
http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arch_story/022004.htm
This is the one but I understand that it was cut into 3 sections to get it to Italy.
When it is back there and re-erected - will be a triolith?
Pete
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-01 12:30
... And the largest single standing stone in Britain is reckoned to be the Rudston monolith in North Yorkshire
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| New Message Posted!2005-11-01 06:20
...and the largest man made hill / mound in Wales is The Gop, and the largest megaliths at Bryn Gwyn Stones
cheers
Tim
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-10-31 15:36
If you bring in the pyramids then you have to consider the ziggurats: http://www.crystalinks.com/ziggurat.html
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-10-31 09:56
Turkey certainly has bigger and older mounds than Silbury.
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Anonymous
User not Registered | New Message Posted!2005-10-31 07:31
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On 2005-02-10 19:37, Andy B wrote:
but it does annoy me when writers rattle off that phrase about Silbury with brains disengaged.
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Well, it does depend on how you define "Mound" I suppose, but David Field did go into this question in some detail in a paper for English Heritage and concluded it was actually the biggest in the world. EH haven't yet caught up with that claim.
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