Orion Rising

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I have a lot of doubts about any Orion Thornbro link. We are told that this is a ritual landscape and the henges are contemporary with each other. Yet when the Orion theory comes into play the other elements of the landscape are forgotten about. Yes, there is an alignment it is roughly a NW-SE alignment of six henges and a stone row, not to mention the various pits, cursus's and other henges.
Orion rises in Late september in the SSW and leaves us in mid march in the SSE, as we have seen the henges are roughly aligned NW-SE and the cursus is at 90 degrees to the central henge NE-SW therefore one of them is bound to intercept Orion at some point.

I've always been scepital about the Orion alignement at Thronbourgh.
I doubt I'll get the chance to go up there and check it out so I'll leave it as unknown.
Orions belt are not the only 3 stars in a row with one offset but it is the most prominent.

Agreed, but I am more interested (though not greatly) in alignments at this time of year when Orion's belt is on the eastern horizon. Aligning to something at a very obviously markable stage (such as lunar maximum) is more convincing and worth talking about and not simply dismissing off hand.