I heard this word on a Discovery Channel show on Stonehenge. I googled it and got a drug company. I looked in both Wikipedia and Dictionary.com and got nothing. Hellllllllp! Three rocks, I assume, but WHAT three rocks?

There's only one google hit for trilaton stonehenge, so I guessed it would be a typo. Yep. Found it by . . . ah, why take the fun out of it for all of you? See if you can find the word, correctly spelled.

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you sound like the quintessential elementary school teacher requiring a student to use the dictionary . . . ugh!

took me 3 tries - isn't it cool how 3 is often the magic number? Ahh, the wonders of the universe!

Found it! Hurry up and find it, you guys, so I can post a new site I found!

Tinman

Good flaming grief! I ask a simple question and get the sixth grade student treatment! Harumphhh!

Oh, gosh, do I agree with you, Asa!

Post your site, Tinman! (BTW, I do like CW's nickname for you, "Tinny." )

So . . . it's trilathon, right? Am I right? Do I get the star for the day? Do I? Huh?

Oh, come on, Teacher, I promise to be a good student!

All right, class: what's the Greek word for stone? (Class groans as if one.) Greek lithos 'stone'. And the word for three? (More groans.) Trilithon.

As I said at the beginning, "Three rocks, I suppose..." I mis-heard what they said, and Jheem, you've pointed out my error. Thanks! Now, as to my original question, What three rocks? It was built with two uprights and a top piece repeated until a circle was described, but is that all they were saying?

What three rocks? It was built with two uprights and a top piece repeated until a circle was described, but is that all they were saying?

Yup, that's it. A sort of ur-arch. I've heard the third piece on top called a lintel.

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Originally posted by Caterwauller:
you sound like the quintessential elementary school teacher requiring a student to use the dictionary . . . ugh!

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And what's wrong with that? You do know how to use a dictionary, don't you?

Tinman

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Post your site, Tinman!

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Thanks, Kalleh. You know I was dying to post it. The Adventures of Archaeology Wordsmith. Isn't that a great name!

Tinman