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Pinch Holes & Ancient Metal Clamps with Andrew Finck — Part 6 of 7 | Classics Rotation

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Andrew Finck explains pinch holes, pairs of holes that loop together behind the stone surface, and shows examples he says turn up from Jordan to Baalbek, Egypt and Malta. He then moves to the metal clamps that join ancient blocks and asks what they were really for. Andrew warns against cherry-picking a single anomaly like the pyramids and says the best-photographed sites show a connected…