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To: blam
additional pic, update:

The henge showed up as dark ridges in a wheat field in a 1991 aerial photograph of the site... A magnetometer survey confirmed the anomaly. Analysis shows that the southeast entrance to the henge marked the winter solstice and that the southwest gate was aligned to the summer solstice. Though some archaeologists question the intepretation, Biehl believes the site was a kind of solar observatory. (Courtesy LfA)

The henge showed up as dark ridges in a wheat field in a 1991 aerial photograph of the site... A magnetometer survey confirmed the anomaly. Analysis shows that the southeast entrance to the henge marked the winter solstice and that the southwest gate was aligned to the summer solstice. Though some archaeologists question the intepretation, Biehl believes the site was a kind of solar observatory. (Courtesy LfA)

35 posted on 06/27/2006 10:07:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There's a very good article on this subject in the July/August edition of Archaeology magazine.


36 posted on 06/28/2006 4:47:44 AM PDT by blam
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