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moss M
moss Apr 7, 2009 20:50:22
Replying to tiompan

"certainly goes through the barrow cemetry but is way out for the max moonrise"

Surely the barrow cemeteries are for burying the dead, and got added to over the centuries, often they are in straight lines, as if later 'chiefs/elders' are added on. For instance............ Priddy Nine barrows and Ashen Hill barrow cemeteries are both in straight lines at oblique angles to each other in the same field.... is there alignments on either of them?
Beech trees are your safest bet in wiltshire SS ;)

S Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Apr 7, 2009 21:18:46
Replying to moss

Yes, have a look at image 134 (of 238) on the Avebury page - they are beech. (Which is where the word 'book' - through the German 'buche' - comes from - and not many people know that). (I think I've been buying too much German gear on eBay!).

T tiompan
tiompan Apr 7, 2009 22:14:12
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
"certainly goes through the barrow cemetry but is way out for the max moonrise"

Surely the barrow cemeteries are for burying the dead, and got added to over the centuries, often they are in straight lines, as if later 'chiefs/elders' are added on. For instance............ Priddy Nine barrows and Ashen Hill barrow cemeteries are both in straight lines at oblique angles to each other in the same field.... is there alignments on either of them?
Beech trees are your safest bet in wiltshire SS ;)

Quite a time period between the building of the henge and the barrow cemetery . The Ashen Hill barrows have a straightish section that is not aligned on any of the usual astro suspects . Priddy Nine barrows is not very straight .