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moss Sep 9, 2011 17:03:35

Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:

We'll probably hear a bit more about this monument (horseshoes etc ) or at least the area in the next weeks . Difficult to be too accurate about the axis of the monument but it looks between 43-53 degrees if it is 47 then fwiw arguably it's aligned on the summer solstice sunrise . 49 looks more like it for me which would mean being about a week later . Hs anyone noticed if the "alignment " has been recorded before ?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/509/bedd_arthur.html

Well I did buy Bluestone Magic by Robin Heath - not sure what you think of him Tiompan ;) - but he says..

"Now made up of 16 stones (there were 18), there size may be diminutive, but the monument's axis packs an interesting punch, locating the position of midsummer sunrise during the Neolithic period - at about 47 east of north, depending on the horizon elevation"

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tiompan Sep 9, 2011 17:16:14

Replying to moss

moss wrote:

tiompan wrote:

We'll probably hear a bit more about this monument (horseshoes etc ) or at least the area in the next weeks . Difficult to be too accurate about the axis of the monument but it looks between 43-53 degrees if it is 47 then fwiw arguably it's aligned on the summer solstice sunrise . 49 looks more like it for me which would mean being about a week later . Hs anyone noticed if the "alignment " has been recorded before ?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/509/bedd_arthur.html

Well I did buy Bluestone Magic by Robin Heath - not sure what you think of him Tiompan ;) - but he says..

"Now made up of 16 stones (there were 18), there size may be diminutive, but the monument's axis packs an interesting punch, locating the position of midsummer sunrise during the Neolithic period - at about 47 east of north, depending on the horizon elevation"

Great thanks Moss . I wonder if that was the first accurate mention .
Not a fan of his , what I see as over interpretative /imaginative side but he can survey although god knows how he got the horizon altitude at Bryn celli ddu , but I think I can guess . "Cracking the Stone Age Code " was fun and informative and he seems like a decent bloke .