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Stoneshifter wrote:
Although Thom senior is now out of favour his work was pioneering and statistically sound.
He did make mistakes , we all do and he was a brilliant engineer , the problem is his interpretation .
Anyone can claim that a spot particularly if it has a monument , is aligned to some astronomical event but to prove it it was intentional by the builders is a different story . Newgrange fits the bill because it has a passage which is much more salient than a single stone , Stonehenge avenue is another .

tiompan wrote:
he was a brilliant engineer , the problem is his interpretation.
Thom classified Long Meg as a type B flattened circle and went to great pains to describe it's geometry. Nothing wrong with that but I wonder what Thom would have made of the earlier ditched enclosure, the probable cause of the flattening of the circle. Perhaps he would have set aside his slide rule and taken up the spade.