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Ring of Brodgar

Nomenclature

I think Alexander Thom did quite a lot of surveying work at Stenness and Brodgar. Many of his findings a likely to be in his book 'Megalithic Lunar Observatories'. I read his 'Megalithic Sites in Britain and Britanny' a long time ago... all good stuff, even if I didn't understand a lot of it... his findings on the geometry of stone circle design were fascinating.

Ah, the mighty Thom! I shall have to investigate, although I must admit that I also find his writings rather impenetrable: I'm not very scientifically minded, and there's quite a lot of maths involved. Thanks, Kozmik Ken.