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Interestingly enough, this dovetail has been cut in half.

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We can see that quite well here.

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It was cut in half on purpose

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at the time of the construction, of the building site.

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It is likely that the stone cutters

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set in place a block, then this one next to it.

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They dug a hole

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to insert the dovetail.

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They drove it into place.

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But then they must have realized that the block they had just set in place

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was perhaps poorly positioned. They had to correct things a bit.

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So they cut the dovetail.

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Because the dovetail is pounded into place,

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unless they wanted to break the stone around it,

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they couldn't remove it.

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So they cut the dovetail.

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They repositioned the block.

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But so that it couldn't be seen,

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they hid it

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with a small piece of wood, I don't know if it's oak,

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they hid

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the break in the dovetail.

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And that tells us a lots of things.

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It shows that there were controls on the construction site,

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frequent and perhaps impromptu controls.

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That's something very interesting,

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because it shows how things were organized.

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The people who did this, the stone cutters,

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were definitely afraid of getting in trouble

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with the foremen

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or the architect who designed the monument,

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if he saw it.

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Once they had put everything back in place, they

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hid it with a bit of dust and earth.

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That way, the break could no longer be seen.

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They were no longer worried and the project could go forward.