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The Age of Stonehenge Deduced from the Orientation of its Axis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. Herbert Stone
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Extract

In the year 1901 Sir Norman Lockyer made some instrumental observations at Stonehenge with a view to determining the angle of obliquity of the ecliptic which would cause midsummer sunrise to take place at a point on the horizon on the line of the axis of the structure.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1923 , pp. 130 - 134
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1923

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