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Stoneshifter wrote:
And I've never even seen Avebury - it's over-rated, if you ask me - but I recall we were arguing on this forum a long time ago about it and it seemed that there was a barrow or barrows on Waden Hill that framed the southernmost moon (was it rise or set?) from the southern entrance to the henge, and that this barrow, or barrows, had now been ploughed out. It was also now impossible to see this setting or rising position because of a clump of trees that now blocked the sightline - and anyway the lunar maxima are presently about sixteen years away, in the future ...
I havn't worked it out ,but as the barrows are almost due south and the altitude is not that great it is unlikely that the maj or min moon would be seen rising or setting over the barrows from anywhere within the henge .

I consulted Thom's annotated survey of Avebury - which is criticised as 'fanciful', I know. It's the lunar maximum moonrise that is indicated by one of the sections of the Z-Stones, through the southern entrance, (and I know these were questionably located by Mr Marmalade). The two dirty great portal stones are shaped, I believe, to facilitate this observation, which is now barred by a copse of elm? trees. I remember watching this southern moonrise from a putative stone circle site high in the Northumbrian fells. I never realised what a grand experience it would be.

Soon be time for the first crop circles to appear - oh, freak out !