I imagined them to be large slabs, stuck upright into the ground to go underground a pretty good distance as well as above ground. Note that they were never knocked over due largely to their depth. I believe more accurate dimensions are given elsewhere, but they are wide enough to be a large parapet, and a smaller crenelated wall was raised along the top to protect people standing there. Note, too, that the size of the blocks is not commensurate with the size of Mr. Statue, and that the volume of stone gained this way was far more than the volume of said Mister. This is coupled with the relatively small organ stones that are known (why is that kidney stone so big, though?) to cause materialists to wonder either how could it be, or to decide the worshippers and mythic historians are liars.
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