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FourWinds wrote: nigelswift wrote: I wonder if anyone has investigated whether at the other end, close to The Sanctuary, the route of the Avenue equates with the easiest route down the slope? That would be the single most useful study in my eyes. If that were true then everything is blown out. It just goes from A-B the easy way. Anything that snakes can have tangents drawn to provide alignments. What is needed is horizon features. The presence of a barrow mentioned above as possibly fortuitous is a prime example. The avenue could align on it or it could have been built there to align with the avenue at a later date. If the barrow came first then the solar/lunar alignment is either significant or just a really nice effect to be seen from the avenue. It's all fascinating stuff! Totally disagree about horizon features , all the calssic cases of astro alignmnets dont't have them e.g. Stonehenge , Newgrange etc . most horizon features that get mentioned are usually the lest lekiely alignments ,notches etc relating to single stones . Remember that the straight sections are 100 metres plus which is a long alignment with lots of intentionality . Reply | with quote |  11th December 2008ce 08:00 In reply to: Re: Avebury (FourWinds) |
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