=
×

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Head To Head
Log In
Register
The Modern Antiquarian Forum »
For Ceremonial purposes?
Log In to post a reply
127 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
tiompan
tiompan
5758 posts

Re: For Ceremonial purposes?
Aug 20, 2013, 08:50
tjj wrote:
Hi Roy, sorry to come to this discussion late in the day. Lots of useful posts being made which I have been reading.
Just before I went up to Lewis I printed off this article http://www.soue.org.uk/souenews/issue8/thom.html
and did a bit of reading up on Alexander Thom and Megalithic Astronomy. It's an interesting article which also touches on the 'megalithic yard' - a linear measurement of 0.829m or 2.72ft.


June , In an otherwise relatively sober article there's one howler " This can sometimes mean that a modern observer would have to stand hundreds of metres from where the megalithic observer would, in order to see the same thing. So Thom had to do extensive calculations to make his case."
He seems to have got his noughts in a twist ,this is way out ,the change in obliquity means things are a bit different today but as anybody who has been to Stonehenge or Newgrange at solstice can see it is nothing like hundreds of metres more like 1m.
In reply to:
Re: For Ceremonial purposes? (tjj)		 Replies:
Re: For Ceremonial purposes? (nigelswift)
Re: For Ceremonial purposes? (tjj)
Topic Outline:
The Modern Antiquarian Forum Index