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Re: winter solstice

Dec 01, 2005, 20:34

Greetings Olly,

I go with the midwinter sunset, as per that at Stonehenge. My reason is that the evidence, in my humble opinion, for this, is the most convincing.

Out of interest, the midweek Time Team programme about the dig at Durrington Walls seemed to give evidence to the midwinter cause.

They found evidence of midwinter feasts, and a "road" to the River Avon. This links the monument to the Stonehenge Avenue, which in turn processes to Stonehenge, arriving from the NE, i.e. towards the SW, which is where the sun would have been framed between the uprights of the Great Trilithon as it set on the midwinter solstice.

Regards,
TE.

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winter solstice – olly, Dec 01, 2005, 11:45


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