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Mike Pitts requested the geofizz and evidence from the uni to review:

http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/view-from-the-heelstone/

juamei wrote:
Mike Pitts requested the geofizz and evidence from the uni to review:

http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/view-from-the-heelstone/

Done . Fwiw .
"Thanks Mike and the Birmingham team for the data that really is helpful and clears things up. It was apparent that something was not working out from the text available on Saturday but without co-ordinates not so easy to say exactly where the mistake lay . Heritage Daily didn’t help by giving one of the pits sites as the same for last years “Henge “ .
Assuming the pits are contemporaneous with the cursus i.e. 3630- 3670 BC then the declination for solstice rise and set and that time was 24.05 degrees and the azimuth for sun set at the Solstice as seen from the heel Stone would be 309.5 degres . Looking at the GE image the azimuth for the Heel Stone to western pit alignment is 312.6 degrees (a convenient mark is the south western edge of the field that contains the “Cursus Barrows “ ) which is three degrees further north than the sun ever actually gets to . The alignment towards the solstice sun rise is accurate and the resulting distance between the two points is within a couple of metres of exactly 2 Km . the mid way point is thus within a metre over 1 Km ,this point when extended due south as suggested for the final leg of the procession does not lead to the centre of Stonehenge but a point 210 metres east of the centre of the monument .
I have stuck to falsifiable data but problems with the conjecture about alignments involving non intervisibility and painfully slow processions all based on two pits that are undated ,unexcavated and too big to have held timber posts or megaliths might take up too much room ."

"These anomalies have not been excavated or cored, so we do not know what they are, or how old they are. Antler from the west end of the Cursus has been dated to 3630–3370BC (1). The earliest known phase at Stonehenge is some five centuries later, at 3015–2935BC. The erection of the Heelstone is undated, but is generally assumed to have taken place at an early stage in the site’s history, perhaps as early as 3000BC – though as my excavation there in 1979 showed, at that date (we’re guessing these dates) the stone may have been standing a little bit north-west of its present site (2)."

That's just what I pointed out yesterday. If the holes haven't been dated yet, what chances are there of there being an allignment with a Heel stone (also badly dated in 1979) which might date from, say, 2000 years later (or not)? The fact that the new holes are on the cursus does not immediately consign them to the neolithic (judging from the varied SH landscape, with earlier postholes nearby).

It is all still possible if the dates coincide in the end or allowing for the recycling of sites down the ages, of course, but it's still all conjecture; and that's coming from someone who is all for equinox/solstice allignments as seen in other megalithic sites or tomb orientations (not so much for the so-called processions though).