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nigelswift wrote:
Here's a ticklish question I can't get my head round: If 3 points in a straight line are insufficient to suggest intentionality then are two such instances which share a common point any more likely to do so?

And another question: are there any other cases where one of the points is below the horizon (as here) but where intentionality is nevertheless postulated (dowsing manuals excepted).

Quite .
Here is a quote from one of the team after the discovery of the previous "henge " .
Paul Garwood, prehistorian at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, said “This discovery is of great importance for our understanding of the Stonehenge landscape in the 3rd millennium BC. Its location, a short distance from Stonehenge, and the fact that the two monuments were inter-visible, raises exciting new questions about the complex sacred landscape that existed around Stonehenge when the sarsen and bluestone monument was constructed.”

Is non intervisibility the new intervisibility ?

tiompan wrote:
Is non intervisibility the new intervisibility ?
Well I know a Quango that'll hope not - for very coincidentally English Heritage has just published a guidance paper for planners on the setting of heritage assets. They've obviously been up all night doing it and as they say -

“Intentional inter-visibility between heritage assets, or between heritage assets and natural features, can make a particularly important contribution to significance. Some assets, whether contemporaneous or otherwise, were intended to be seen from one another for aesthetic, functional, ceremonial or religious reasons.”

So I think they’ll be hopping mad (as may our development-orientated government and their advisors, Wimpeys) if they have to sit down and re-write it to expand the concept of heritage landscapes to include features that are beyond the sight lines! ;)

http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/english-heritages-guidance-paper-on-the-setting-of-heritage-assets/