The large Trilithons were erected from the centre of the site.
But in any case the natural structure of the stone made it an ideal material for the Trilithons, or, it may be, that the Trilithons were the natural outcome of the physical peculiarities of the rock.
But whereas the circle alone is used at Avebury, Stonehenge has in addition the horseshoe series of Trilithons and foreign uprights, and in this particular differs from all other Cromlechs in this country.
It is a question, as yet, if the outer Sarsen Trilithons were erected from the outside or the inside of the circle.
To-day only two of the Inner Trilithons are standing.
This can easily be seen to-day, in the group of three Trilithons which lie between the Altar Stone and the Hele Stone.
In the case of the Trilithons of the Inner Horseshoe, only one tenon on each upright was necessary.
In the outer circle of Trilithons each upright had two tenons worked on its apex, to bear the two lintels or horizontal stones which rested upon it.
These Trilithons rise gradually in height towards the south-west.
In the first place the interval (ten or twelve feet) between the uprights of the Tongan trilithon appears to be much greater than the interval between the uprights of the trilithons at Stonehenge.
It is natural to compare the trilithon of Tongataboo with the famous trilithons of Stonehenge, which it resembles in plan and to which it is comparable in size.
As the origin and purpose of Stonehenge are still unknown, its massive trilithons can hardly be cited to explain the similar monument of Tongataboo.
Rivers spoke as if there were several trilithons in Tongataboo (History of Melanesian Society, ii.
He now argues that the trilithons and outer circle are later additions to an earlier temple to which the blue-stones belong.
This view seems to be disproved by the excavations of 1901, which made it clear that the trilithons were erected before and not after the blue-stones.
At the foot of one of the trilithons was found a baetyl 51 inches in height, now in the museum at Valletta.
The Maltese cells are not like dolmens at all, they are eithertrilithons or tables resting on a pillar.
Well within this circle stood the five huge trilithons (a-e), arranged in the form of a horseshoe with its open side to the north-east.
To the left of the entrance is a rectangular niche in the wall containing one of the remarkable trilithons (a) which form so striking a feature of Mnaidra and Hagiar Kim.
On the top end of each upright of the trilithons is an accurately cut tenon which dovetails into two mortices cut one at each end of the lower surface of the horizontal block.
The outer ring of trilithons is too ruinous for us to be able to state what its original condition was.
The great inner ring of trilithons at Stonehenge affects the horse-shoe shape, and is, and always was, incomplete.
It is conjectured that, as in the case of the inner blue stones, this outer ring was constructed before the more imposing trilithons were erected, perhaps at a period long anterior.
When these were in position the recumbent block could easily be placed across the two and, all the trilithons being complete, the earth could be dug away, leaving the stones standing.
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