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tiompan

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Re: Summer Solstice 2015

Jul 12, 2015, 22:55

The Eternal wrote:

tiompan wrote:

.......That's what you do at Newgrange .i.e. enter in one direction then turn around .

It also assumes that there was a some observation going on ,at Newgrange too for that matter .

Hi tiompan,

Good point, although in a place such as Newgrange there is no other option other than to turn round, with it being an enclosed space. At Stonehenge it is an open site. I agree that there was definitely some observation going on at Newgrange.

Al the best,

TE.

TE ,
Although it may have been , I am not convinced that observation was going on at either site . There would have been simple observation needed to work out the the direction of the solstice event at each site , but after that not necessarilly . If Newgrange had the blocking stone in place ,relatively soon after build ,as we now know was the case at some chambered tombs , it wouldn't have been at all likely .

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Summer Solstice 2015 – Kammer, May 20, 2015, 16:32


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