tiompan
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Edited Dec 14, 2014, 12:28
Re: Winter Solstice Plans
Dec 14, 2014, 12:27
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nigelswift wrote: Fascinating.
I'm prepared to forgive EH and the Druids for following the backwards drift of the solar solstice relative to calendars, as it makes more sense to look at where the sun is than where the calendar is.
BUT:
For EH to be letting people into an astronomical observatory to observe what the builders built it to observe, they need to put themselves in the shoes of the Man on the Salisbury Plain around about now, armed only with eyeballs and sticks, assuming it hadn't yet been built. Which sunsets (and other evidence indicates it is sunsets) would he observe as the most "extreme" - given the actual horizon he would most probably have experienced thousands of years ago?
Maybe I'm being a bit pernickity but I've still to get over this https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/mystic-meg-to-be-given-advisory-role-at-stonehenge/
What with that, and the fact they holding a sunrise event for no understandable reason and they spend a lot of my money on it, they need to put it on a more convincing basis IMO.
There is also the problem that the practice of "observing the solstice " is conjecture.Simply because a monument has an alignment to an astronimical event doesn't mean that punters made a point of observing it every year after the initial observation to find the alignment was made .The case at Newgrange is even more obvious ,it was blocked off .
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moss
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Re: Winter Solstice Plans
Dec 14, 2014, 12:28
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Sanctuary wrote: spencer wrote: Well done, Roy
Thanks...will report on that when completed.
You have not given us where you will be going for solstice, if I was in Cornwall it would be the Hurlers. But I will probably watch the sun rise between the chimneys where we live ;) Sunrise is beautiful where ever it is and whatever the time of year...
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Sanctuary
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Re: Winter Solstice Plans
Dec 14, 2014, 13:46
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moss wrote: Sanctuary wrote: spencer wrote: Well done, Roy
Thanks...will report on that when completed.
You have not given us where you will be going for solstice, if I was in Cornwall it would be the Hurlers. But I will probably watch the sun rise between the chimneys where we live ;) Sunrise is beautiful where ever it is and whatever the time of year...
Not decided where yet Moss. 'Did' the Hurlers last year and Rillaton Barrow Summer Solstices this year, so may go elsewhere this time. Then again might even consider Stowe's Hill. Might even be KAH. If it's tipping down bed is the place to be :-)
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nigelswift
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Re: Winter Solstice Plans
Dec 14, 2014, 15:10
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tiompan wrote: Simply because a monument has an alignment to an astronimical event doesn't mean that punters made a point of observing it every year
Indeed, it could have been built on the orders of a megalomaniac elite for use on a single occasion, like the Dome.
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tiompan
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Re: Winter Solstice Plans
Dec 14, 2014, 15:14
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Winter feasting may have taken place at Durrington . Stonehenge has produced zero evidence for anything similar , it may well have been out of bounds .
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nigelswift
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Re: Winter Solstice Plans
Dec 14, 2014, 15:24
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tiompan wrote: it may well have been out of bounds .
There goes your chairmanship of the "Free and Open Access" group.
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TMA Ed
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Now unlocked
Dec 15, 2014, 14:46
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I have no explanation. Perhaps a mistaken click of the mouse.
TMA Ed.
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Sanctuary
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Re: Now unlocked
Dec 15, 2014, 16:29
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TMA Ed wrote: I have no explanation. Perhaps a mistaken click of the mouse.
TMA Ed.
Thanks Ed...
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Evergreen Dazed
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Re: Now unlocked
Dec 15, 2014, 16:42
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*sigh*
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CARL
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Re: Now unlocked
Dec 16, 2014, 07:30
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St Lythams for me (weather permitting). I saw the summer solstice from here so it would be nice to see the winter one too!
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