So these guys stranded in New England for 9 months spent their time building a 48 foot stone observatory instead of building a fort and storing up food and supplies? Not to say your theory's wrong, but it that's what the tower is, it wouldn't have been on the first landing.
They would have been a group of a out 80 workmen who were sent a year in advance of the main colonization effort to prepare the site and build the Tower so that there would be a structure there when the colonists arrived. This is different than the way we know that the colonization effort eventually materialized, but there is ample evidence that the architects of this colonization effort (the first in English history) vastly underestimated the difficulty that they were to face. This was the first of 5 failed colonization efforts before the 1620 Pilgrim settlement that was the first to survive.
I wonder how they calculated where to position the hole ... wow !
Looks like a grain store to me. Maybe I'll get to see it one day.
So these guys stranded in New England for 9 months spent their time building a 48 foot stone observatory instead of building a fort and storing up food and supplies?
Not to say your theory's wrong, but it that's what the tower is, it wouldn't have been on the first landing.
They would have been a group of a out 80 workmen who were sent a year in advance of the main colonization effort to prepare the site and build the Tower so that there would be a structure there when the colonists arrived. This is different than the way we know that the colonization effort eventually materialized, but there is ample evidence that the architects of this colonization effort (the first in English history) vastly underestimated the difficulty that they were to face. This was the first of 5 failed colonization efforts before the 1620 Pilgrim settlement that was the first to survive.