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	Unasylva - No. 88 - Twentieth anniversary of the ECE Timber Committee
		From the mid-1950s onward, the participation in the Timber Committee's sessions of delegations from all parts of the ECE region enabled its annual market reviews and forecasts to be comprehensive, and its reports on the market came to be recognized as the considered opinion of authorities from throughout the region.
		At the joint meeting of the Timber Committee and the European Forestry Commission in October 1953, which considered the findings of the first timber trends study, a recommendation was adopted calling on ECE and FAO to accord high priority to studies concerned with increasing the yield from forests and improving the efficiency of forest operations.
		Although the Timber Committee is officially a body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, an agreement concluded between the Director-General of FAO and the Executive Secretary of ECE at the time when the committee was established guarantees that all the actions of the committee shall be in keeping with FAO forest policy.
	www.fao.org /docrep/68738e/68738e06.htm (5823 words)

	Henge - Stone Circle - Crystalinks
		A stone circle is a circular space, delimited by purposely erected stones and often containing burials.
		The earliest circles were erected around five thousand years ago during the Neolithic period and may have evolved from earlier burial mounds which often covered timber or stone mortuary houses.
		The final phase of stone circle construction took place in the early to middle Bronze Age (c.2200-1500 BC) and saw the construction of numerous small circles which, it has been suggested, were built by individual family groups rather than the large numbers that monuments like Avebury would have required.
	www.crystalinks.com /henge.html (2162 words)

	Machrie Moor Standing Stones, Isle of Arran
		The whole moorland is littered with the remains of early man, from hut circles to chambered cairns and solitary standing stones.
		Although the stone circles date from around 1800 to 1600 BC during the Bronze Age period, there is plenty of evidence to suggest much earlier use of the site during the Neolithic period.
		At this time several timber circles were erected on the moor in the general area where some of the stone circles now lie.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /majorsites/machrie1.html (716 words)

	The Prehistoric Society - Book Review
		Stonehenge has its timber settings, in the form of some at least of the Aubrey Holes and the phase 2 posts (though not necessarily arranged in circles), while the sarsen and earlier bluestone trilithons of phase 3 copy timber constructions.
		Timber circles become monuments for the living and stone circles monuments for the ancestors.
		Contrasting the often closed, ‘exclusive’ and spatially complex architecture of timber circles with the open format of those in stone, he is at pains to stress that timber circles are not proto-types for stone circles, except, of course, at Stonehenge.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /prehistoric/reviews/06_04_gibson.htm (1255 words)

	Timber circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timber circles in the British Isles date to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
		Technically, they always consist of at least two concentric circles or ovals of timbers although there are variations on the rule such as the monuments of Seahenge and Arminghall, both in East Anglia which are often described as being timber circles.
		The only excavated examples of timber circles that stood alone from other features are Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timber_circle (356 words)

	UFO Area - Seahenge gives up its secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is thought timber circles were used by prehistoric cultures to expose their dead to the elements, birds and wild animals - a practice called excarnation.
		An excavation by the Norfolk Archaeology Unit suggests that the circle was originally constructed on swampy ground up to a kilometre from the sea, which the waves covered at a later date.
		The circle is close to the low tide mark on the beach and could be destroyed by wave erosion now it has been exposed.
	www.ufoarea.com /aas_seahenge.html (934 words)

	Machrie Moor
		There is evidence that complex wooden structures were the predecessors to the circles.
		These were originally timber constructed circles which later (about 500 years) were converted to stone structures.
		Circle 5 was the only one that did not contain any remains.
	www.darkisle.com /m/machriemoor/machriemoor.html (101 words)

	Seahenge News
		The timber circle has become a magnet for New Age travellers and it has been suggested that it will be the scene of a Druid ceremony at next month's summer solstice.
		We are considering the possibility of preserving the circle but that option presents a number of difficulties not least because the timbers are submerged by the sea for up to 23 hours each day.
		The circle of oak trunks, with an upside-down tree in the centre, is likely to have been a death-temple erected 4,000 years ago.
	druidry.org /obod/news/woodhenge.html (7202 words)

	channel4.com - Time Team 2005 - Durrington Walls - Time Team's timber circles reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The circle was 40 metres across and aligned so that the midwinter sun would rise between the entrance posts.
		The largest post in Time Team's reconstruction weighed five tons, and it was decided to erect this one manually, without the aid of modern machinery, to give an idea of the scale of the task facing the Neolithic henge builders.
		The reconstruction of the timber circle at Durrington Walls provided insights into a number of issues to do with how such monuments were built and what they might have been used for.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/2005_durr_timber.html (645 words)

	Stanton Drew Stone Circle: New Geophysical Survey Evidence
		The circles are thought to have been originally noted by the famous antiquarian John Aubrey in 1664, and the first plan of them was published by William Stukeley in 1776.
		The circles are believed to have played an important part in contemporary social and religious life, and there is evidence that some were aligned with major events of the solar and lunar calendar.
		The circles are the largest and most numerous yet recorded at any site and surely indicate the investment of immense effort and enterprise in the service of prehistoric beliefs as yet only dimly perceived.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archaeometry/StantonDrew (1306 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stonehenge and the Timber Circles of Britain and Europe (Tempus History & Archaeology): Books: Alex Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Timber circles have been largely ignored as a major and significant type of ancient monument.
		If only because timber is less permanent than stone, timber circles have been largely ignored as a major and significant type of ancient monument.
		Timber circles date from 3000 BC and continued in use until the Roman Conquest.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/075241402X (1282 words)

	Unasylva - Vol. 5, No. 3 - Commodity report
		Thus in October, 1950, the seventh session of the ECE Timber Committee found the gap between import requirements and export possibilities had widened, and amounted to 677,000 solid m³, or 5 percent of total pitprop requirements, as against the earlier assumption of only 3 percent of total pitprop requirements.
		The Timber Committee therefore drew the attention of governments to this critical situation, and recommended that measures be contemplated to increase in the major coal producing countries the domestic production of pitprops, and in the major wood exporting countries to give priority to export sales of pitprops.
		The Timber Committee believed, on the other hand, that the shortage of small sized roundwood and the intensive competition for pitprops and pulpwood was not just a temporary phenomenon, but showed indications of becoming increasingly severe.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5360e/x5360e05.htm (2908 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		The henge, concealed by a series of stone circles, is a near-perfect circle with an outer diameter of about 443 feet.
		Within this circle, are at least nine concentric circles that are thought to be burial pits.
		The timber temple is the eighth wooden structure discovered in Britain -- a small number compared to the 3,000 stone circles found.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/11/11/02.asp (257 words)

	Ask the Experts: Post and Beam/Timber Frame Difference
		However I think people are using the words timber framing more frequently today and infact when I talk to old carpenters they seem to use the words post and beam more often.
		However, someone who has been around timber framing circles alot longer than I have may be able to distill the sematics and see the fine line between timber framing and post and beam.
		I use timber frame to describe post and beam construction where the wood connections are traditional pegged joinery.
	www.tfguild.org /ubbcgibin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=11;t=000174 (464 words)

	jungsteinSITE - Palisaded Enclosure at Hindwell
		Prehistoric enclosures have been located from aerial photography, round barrows, standing stones and a stone circle survive as earthwork monuments, and some 6000 flints have been recovered from ploughed fields.
		There is also circumstantial evidence from analogy with similar sites elsewhere in Britain to suggest that the uprights formed the frame for a solid barrier and therefore extra timbers would have had to be felled and split to form the horizontals.
		Timber circles or pit circles are also found within the enclosures at Meldon Bridge in Peeblesshire and Dunragit in Dumfries.
	www.jungsteinsite.uni-kiel.de /2000_gibson/hindwell.htm (1573 words)

	National Timber Tax Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The diagrams are circles drawn to show the number of one inch boards that can be sawn from logs of different sizes, after compensating for saw kerf (sawdust waste) and slabs.
		But when Scribner or International rules are used--most often by the U.S. Forest Service in its estimates of timber sales volumes--log diameters are strictly inside bark measurements and defects are carefully compensated for.
		In the meantime, the examiner should continue to check differences between log scale and lumber tally to determine if any tax advantage is being gained by use of an incorrect log scale.
	www.timbertax.org /publications/irs/auditmanual/Chapter600/620.asp (703 words)

	Earth Change News on Earth Changes TV on the Web
		The bases of the timbers, once they were excavated, were found to be in remarkably good condition.
		That group's original goal was to conserve the timbers for a special museum that would be built to house the artifacts, but funds have not been available to do so.
		But while the newly revealed circle probably dates to about the same period as Seahenge, Ayers and others believe it is not a henge, but the rotting timber supports of a burial mound or barrow.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/February2001/0216BronzeAge.htm (975 words)

	Lughnasadh Celebrated throughout Seasons of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The overall diameter of 40 metres of the Sanctuary is approximately the same as the diameter of both the primary mound and the finished plateau atop Silbury Hill.
		Two additional concentric rings of stone were added to the Sanctuary grounds just after the timber structure were completed, the stones served to connect the site to West Kennet avenue, a stone palisade that led to the Avebury henge.
		Today, low concrete slabs mark the position of the six inner timber circles and the two outer stone circles.
	merganser.math.gvsu.edu /myth/JulyAug03.html (1376 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Crop Circles
		Stonehenge is one of a number of places that attract crop circles over and over again through the years, along with Silbury Hill, the Punch Bowl at Cheesefood Head and East Field at Alton Barnes, to name a few.
		In August 12 1989 this structure was a crop circle in southern England.
		In the present paper, evidence is presented which indicates that structural and cellular alterations take place in plants exposed within the confines of the 'circle' type formations, differences which were determined to be statistically significant when compared with control plants taken outside the formation.
	fusionanomaly.net /cropcircles.html (1822 words)

	Books & Videos from Earthwood Building School
		But traditional timber framing employs the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, as well as much time and expense.
		Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers, and owner-builders, methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws, and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time.
		There is a chapter on stone circle design, another on building small circles, and two chapters on building circles of large stones, by hand and with the aid of heavy equipment.
	www.cordwoodmasonry.com /Books.html (2046 words)

	CNN - Bigger than Stonehenge: Archaeologists find 'timber temple' - November 10, 1997
		The site, concealed by a series of stone circles, was detected with sensitive instruments designed to reveal ancient remains without disturbing the land.
		The evidence so far points to the existence of timber circles and a ditch, or henge, the English Heritage commission said.
		Within the Great Circle are at least nine concentric circles that are thought to be burial pits.
	edition.cnn.com /TECH/9711/10/ancient.site.ap (475 words)

	Stone circles in the landscape and mindscape
		A geophysical survey within the great stone circle at Stanton Drew (Somerset) found that the stones were predated by nine concentric rings of wooden posts within a henge.18 Other early/mid-Neolithic timber circles existed at Woodhenge near Stonehenge, and the Sanctuary at Avebury.
		Stone circles are sacred centres that orientate man within the world, their relationship with surrounding natural features draw in the world and make it comprehensible, whilst also spreading their influence outwards over the surrounding land.
		The circle is on the brow of a hill from which streams drain down into the River Swere to the east.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/circles.htm (5530 words)

	Discription of Log Rules Doyle, Scribner and International
		Because of this, the Doyle Rule is somewhat inconsistent; it underestimates small logs and overestimates large logs.
		As a seller of timber, you must be aware that for smaller logs the Doyle Rule will underestimate the actual volume of wood that you have in your trees.
		It was created by drawing the cross-sections of 1-inch boards within circles representing the end view of logs.
	www.timberbuyer.net /topics/logrules.htm (434 words)

	Time Team timber henge - Topic Powered by eve community
		The team has uncovered remains of two Neolithic timber circles dating from 2,500BC, the time when Stonehenge was being built.
		Finds within the circle are likely to change the theory of the purpose of henges, including Stonehenge.
		Within the circle, archaeologists have found more than 100 flint arrowheads and the discovery of animal bones has indicated what went on within the henges.
	community.channel4.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8896096411/m/4420074413 (780 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		Survey shows circle was built in freshwater swampDr Pryor believes the positioning of the timber circle is significant.
		Specialists clean away the mud of forty centuriesTo protect the fragile remains it was decided to remove the timbers and take them away for analysis and conservation.
		Waterlogged timbers are perfectly preservedThe posts will be submerged in water tanks to protect them from deterioration.
	www.rense.com /ufo4/seahenge.htm (948 words)

	Ancient Worlds News - Bisexual Viking idol marks ancient circle - 30/08/2004
		The idol was built at the same time as a circle of wood monuments constructed thousands of years ago on Holme beach in Norfolk, England.
		Archaeologists connected the idol, which was found several decades ago in the Thames Estuary, with the circles after the idol was recently radiocarbon dated to 2,250 B.C. This year coincides with the construction of Seahenge, a wooden monument built out of a giant, overturned tree stump surrounded by a circle of timbers.
		Although there may be references to astronomical events and other practices, the main motivation in building Seahenge seems to have been to "place the tree stump in the right place, in the right way, within its own wall of oak posts", the report states.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1187944.htm (620 words)

	WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scientists have carbon-dated the relic, found at Dagenham in the Thames Estuary in 1922, and discovered that it dates back to the same period as the older of two timber circles at Holme Beach, Hunstanton, in Norfolk.
		Archaeologists now believe that instead of being composed of plain wooden posts, parts of the bronze age timber circle may have been decorated with carvings.
		The carved figure, which dates back to 2200BC and is believed to be the earliest representation of a human figure in existence, has a rounded head with eyes, nostrils and a mouth.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /print-5614.html (126 words)

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