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fitzcoraldo F
fitzcoraldo Sep 4, 2008 12:30:52
Replying to Stoneshifter

I think that during prehistory the folk of the region would have been more concerned with the quality of the pasture and the availabilty of sweet water as opposed to grain yeilds.
Was it important to know where the centre of the cirlce was? In circles with precise alignments the information was encoded in the stones and the landscape e.g. Callanish
If you are looking for an unbroken lineage regarding the use of alignments, astronomy and navigation then as you imlpy, look at seafarers.

T tiompan
tiompan Sep 4, 2008 12:55:03
Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:
Was it important to know where the centre of the cirlce was?

Who knows , Thom suggests it was . That was what I was getting earlier , when someone says the circle is aligned to Long Meg , whereabouts in/on the circle is critical ,if it is one of the circles stones then it is open season as some are bound to be oriented meaningfully but not necessarily with intent .

If you are looking for an unbroken lineage regarding the use of alignments, astronomy and navigation then as you imlpy, look at seafarers.


Dead right , antikythera device , the whole of the Pacific and much unrecorded stuff .

S Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Sep 4, 2008 14:30:38
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Certainly water, although bread was found in Otzi's tummy and not beef, some deer, but, then, he wasn't living in Cumbria.

There's intuitive evidence that the 'alignments' observed from a stone circle were watched from between, or behind, the stones. In a way that's why my find of an observatory is important, though I'm starting to accept that it'll be decades before it filters through (last picture on the Thornhope page).

No takers on my recently discovered and beautiful Cumbrian barrow, you'll notice.