What I found extremely fascinating was on the huge bare stone ledge that a lot of the chambers were built upon had long grooves carved or ground into the stone surface winding around and away from the chambers to direct rain water away from them into the small pond. That was pretty interesting. Makes me wonder what the ledge here at home looks like if wasn’t buried with rotten leaf matter and muck.
Great observation, Art. Anyone with "water knowledge" sees fairly quickly your space there seems involved with water & water flows in many ways. I sometimes wonder if attempts to control water might have resulted from the receding of the glacial lakes and seas... were the earliest Serpents and water flow management arrangements attempts to keep the water from receding? A speculative and rhetorical question...
No one thinks about the importance of water today. To drink or to use to flush. If something happened to our electrical grid and the power was off for a lengthy time period water would be first on the list. I know water flow here eventually disappears when it stops raining for a few weeks. Redirecting water to a holding area would be a priority.
What I found extremely fascinating was on the huge bare stone ledge that a lot of the chambers were built upon had long grooves carved or ground into the stone surface winding around and away from the chambers to direct rain water away from them into the small pond. That was pretty interesting. Makes me wonder what the ledge here at home looks like if wasn’t buried with rotten leaf matter and muck.
Great observation, Art. Anyone with "water knowledge" sees fairly quickly your space there seems involved with water & water flows in many ways. I sometimes wonder if attempts to control water might have resulted from the receding of the glacial lakes and seas... were the earliest Serpents and water flow management arrangements attempts to keep the water from receding? A speculative and rhetorical question...
Exactly. That is an interesting idea.
No one thinks about the importance of water today. To drink or to use to flush. If something happened to our electrical grid and the power was off for a lengthy time period water would be first on the list. I know water flow here eventually disappears when it stops raining for a few weeks. Redirecting water to a holding area would be a priority.