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tiompan Dec 11, 2008 09:22:35

Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:

Here's some fantastic stuff by Mike Pitts, comparing the viewsheds from the Avenue route with those from the computed "least energy" route!
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/reviews/pitts.html

Hundreds of monuments are visible from both, making any analysis impossible (I'd have thought}, but he does observe that from the least energy route...
"the strong sense that on the Avenue route you are being encouraged to see the landscape with a steady anti-clockwise sweep from east to west - mirroring the daily passage of the sun in the sky - is absent."

How good is that as a bit of work?!

Vince Gaffney et al are the ones who should get the credit for that .

T

tiompan Dec 11, 2008 09:38:58

Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:

nigelswift wrote:

Here's some fantastic stuff by Mike Pitts, comparing the viewsheds from the Avenue route with those from the computed "least energy" route!
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/reviews/pitts.html

Hundreds of monuments are visible from both, making any analysis impossible (I'd have thought}, but he does observe that from the least energy route...
"the strong sense that on the Avenue route you are being encouraged to see the landscape with a steady anti-clockwise sweep from east to west - mirroring the daily passage of the sun in the sky - is absent."

How good is that as a bit of work?!

Vince Gaffney et al are the ones who should get the credit for that .

btw maybe I should point out that I , or anybody else that I can think of have ever suggested that the E-W and river sections of the Stonehenge avenue have any astro connections , it is only the "leg" approaching the monument that does .