fitzcoraldo wrote:
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.
There was also the stone at Castlerigg which was the last peice in the calendrical jigsaw ,only problem was , was that it had been moved there within living memory . Have you seen his stuff on cups and rings ? The megalithic yard goes micro , with just a handful of examples he fits them all into the scheme , looks like the engravers had micrometers . His plans are nearly the best though . He did a lot for astroarchaeology but because Ruggles and others pointed out the mistakes it has led to a backlash and the knee jerk reaction of "it's all bollocks , Ruggles has shown Thom to be wrong " when there is still a lot of perfectly sound sound stuff accepted by Ruggles etc . Thom overstretched and we threw the baby out with the bathwater .
