13th May 2013, 05:45 PM
Myself and a colleague stared at the thing and raised the same query when we were working there a few years back (never pay to get in is my policy, you're bound to work there eventually...have done pretty well so far...) - we concluded that either a wooden post would have been earth-fast (good for 1000 years+ indoors), or someone had found a secondary use for the socket stone.
Alternatively its a circular communal netty (which is obviously what the original Round Table was) and its the drain thats missing...
Alternatively its a circular communal netty (which is obviously what the original Round Table was) and its the drain thats missing...