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Re: Down In The Valley
Sep 16, 2011, 16:26
StoneGloves wrote:
"At the latitude of Slaggyford there are two areas , to the north and south ,both extending to approx 66 degrees of the horizon where the sun and moon never sets or rises . The remainder of the horizon ,228 degrees (360 minus 132 degrees ) is where the Thom paradigm events and directions can be measured "

Have a look at diagram 8.1 in Thom's Megalithic Sites In Britain. It's titled Histogram of observed declinations. He measured sites with alignment declinations from -30, the moon at standstill, to +40, which he hypothesised was to fixed stars. That makes a lot more of the horizon available than you suggest. ..


The horizon limits I mentioned were those for the sun and moon i.e. the typical Thom paradigm event declinations .Of course if you introduce stars then it is open day , you can then say that anything aligns with anything as long as you don't have a date . Due to this problem archaeoastronomy tends to avoid the stellar alignmnets unless there are accurate dates for the monument concerned and it is clearly aligned on that part of the horizon where the sun and moon never rise or set.
A rock in a field even if it was a genuinely marked rock and a hilltop is not the stuff of archaeoastronomy , if the alignment is also nearly 2 weeks off the suggested viewing of the astro event it's hopeless .
Considering such widely off the mark "alignments " is not dissimilar to describing naturally marked rocks as rock art or a fortuitous grouping of stones as stone circles .
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