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Methods of the ancients employed to erect a tower

Did you notice the dome appear to the right of the yurt? Did you wonder for what purpose there was deposited a small number of sleepers near the entrance to the plat, or how they were being moved?

In the absence of lifting gear, we adopted the methods of the builders of Stonehenge. On rollers, the great weights of timber moved too readily with the slightest slope. The problem was not so much moving them as stopping them from speeding or going in the wrong direction. Then they had to be rolled and propped until a small but solid tower was constructed.

The aim was to locate a water tank high enough to supply taps by gravity. It remains to do the plumbing and obtain the supply of clean water.