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>This sight has always remained centered on the original high point of the island, I believe this is ritually significant. It's proximity to the sundial and temple are important.
Same. What throws a curve to understanding the true intention of the “tennis court”(and ostensible reason for a wind-break protective berm is the fact that he did not build a tennis court to begin with.
He built what I keep calling a Formal English Garden set-up, with a circular center and four symetrical quadrants. Which I think puts the lie to his claim of a berm for the tennis court.
Now he may still have wanted to protect “the Garden” but we dom’t know. It does cast doubt as another anon said on the true reason for the berm. The anon said maybe the inside was to keep the conversation about IT and not THAT. Anon postulated maybe the entire berm was spoil from excavating. Hiding it in plain sight.
I had been thinking the original intent was maybe to eventually re-bury he excavation spoils in a mound.
Why bury them? My theory is that the soil on those islands has a high copper content. The British had a full blown copper mine on a nearby island, Virgin Gorda. All the islands of that island group were formed by the same geologic forces. The soil might take on a bluish green tint when it oxidizes.
Anyway that was my theory.