I went to look at Slaggyford stone row III with the county archaeologists last week and one of them liked it and the other considered it an ancient field boundary. I measured the azimuths both north and south, later in the day and have just yesterday worked out the declinations. They are to the winter solstice sunrise and to the summer solstice sunset. The view to the summer sunset is blocked by a stone wall but there is a notch on the horizon to the south (it has Alston's TV transmitter above). The photograph of the sun rising from that notch must be the proof that those little stones are a prehistoric stone row ...
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