Hello everyone,
I would be interested in feedback on a new interpretation of the Bush Barrow gold lozenge.
The argument is not that the lozenge was used to design Stonehenge, nor that it “decodes” Stonehenge itself.
The focus is narrower: whether this Bronze Age gold object from the Stonehenge landscape preserves a polar-threshold solar geometry.
The key point is the zig-zag.
In my simulation, as one moves north toward the Arctic Circle, the solar sunrise/sunset geometry near the onset of polar day changes from smooth curves into a zig-zag pattern.
At the latitude where polar night first appears, about 126 km north of the latitude where polar day first appears, the summer polar-day interval ends within the 36th calendar day.
The Bush Barrow gold lozenge has 36 perimeter zig-zag units.
The paper then compares this with the object’s quasi-rhombic form, its approximately 99° obtuse angle, and the divergent line pairs from the acute vertices.
So the claim is not based on one angle or on zig-zag decoration alone, but on the convergence of several features in one object.
I would be interested to hear whether people know of other Bronze Age artefacts that combine the same set of features: 36 perimeter zig-zag units, rhombic form, approximately 99° angle, and divergent line pairs.
Article title:
“The Bush Barrow Gold Lozenge, the Solar Hexagon, and the Polar Threshold: A Formal Astronomical Comparison”