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Re: Stonehenge Y&Z holes/where are the others?
Nov 27, 2014, 08:49
nigelswift wrote:
We had a little chat about this nearly 10 years ago! http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/tma/topic/23601/threaded/266441

As I mentioned there, I have a pepperpot henge in my bay window that acts as a pretty good calendar, but it has come to me that by far the best way to track sunrises is the horizon itself and features on it. You don't need sticks or stones or any form of sighting system as it's very accurate and error proof - you don't even need to stand in a particular spot.

So I'd say alignments to sunrises are mainly symbolic, not "useful".


People had been on this little planet of ours for many many thousands of years prior to the Late Neolithic/Early BA and you can be pretty sure they knew all about sunrise/sunset/alignments, it didn't need a Stonehenge to tell them that or remind them of it.
And while on the subject of SH, why is it the only one like it? If the 'finished product' was built for a set purpose and 'use', does it mean that it failed miserably so was never replicated elsewhere?
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