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slumpystones wrote:
I think you're right - too many half-hearted field trips, too many old geezers with too much respect for a dead colleague to contradict him...we need more Alice Roberts...
There's no doubt that major monuments like Newgrange have astro alignments but that doesn't mean everything else does .

It seems likely though, with most aligned E-W, that there was some kind of reasoning behind their positioning. Of course it could have just been a vague alignment on the side where the sun and moon both rise as an acknowledgement of that fact without being too specific. They may all have been aligned on particular lunar or solar episodes, but with so few remaining in anything close to their original state, it is unlikely we'll ever have enough data to make any meaningful judgement.