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moss wrote: gjrk wrote: The other scenario -as we considered back there, somewhere- that the monument's orientation could be some sort of (now) indecipherable bow towards the rising, post-equinox sun, would thus imply that the builders got spectacularly 'unlucky' with their coincidental alignment ;) I see that John North has some useful plans in his Stonehenge book (p72-81), but spends a lot of time stargazing from the chambers. He quotes Stukeley; "It stands east and west, pointing to the dragon's head on Overton-hill" (the Sanctuary and its concentric rings), although squinting at a map, this doesn't seem to be the case. When you look from the entrance of WKLB or the other way round from the Sanctuary to WKLB they are just about in view, but of course different time dates. But what WKLB faces is The Ridgeway on Overton Hill that comes over and down at this point past the Sanctuary with the Seofron Barrows on your left. It is the Ridgeway that is important I think, if you think of WKLB as part of a territorial marker, EKLB is higher up the downs between WKLB and the Sanctuary, and I presume the Beckhampton long barrow is the other territoral boundary on the other side... This photo is taken walking down from EKLB, with WKLB to the far left and Silbury in front... http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/82309/silbury_hill.html Last night was an interesting lesson on how the 'ancients' may have looked to the sky for auspicious/ominous signs; I can now comprehend that the important monuments in the Wiltshire landscape that predate Avebury and Silbury by millennia might have been aligned with a red moon eclipse. It seems, if you have a google around the internet, that fundamentalist Christians are still looking the strange Book of Revelations for signs of the end of the world or the 'second coming' - "the sun and the moon will be darkened" and "the moon will turn to blood". To anyone who rejects religion in favour of science this sounds primitive. The Ridgeway does appear to be the same age as the long barrows and Stonehenge. The Ridgeway tjj Reply | with quote |  12th January 2010ce 12:34 In reply to: Re: How he loved the moon (moss) |
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