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Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically ConsideredLockyer, Norman, Sir

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Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered

Name: Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered
Author: Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Druids and Druidism; Great Britain -- Antiquities; Stonehenge (England); Sun worship; Temples

=Brittany=, festivals, 198;
    megalithic remains, 96;
    solstitial fires, 194.

  =Britons=, Saxon slaughter of, 95.

  =Bronze-age=, 75, 78.

  =Brugsch=, 1, 296.

  =Budge=, Dr., 296.

  =Burials=, 146, 164;
    in mounds, 323.

  =Burton=, Captain, 235.

  C.

  =Cæsar=, 52, 323, 324.

  =Cairns=, employment of, 38, 142, 164, 192, 289;
    Biblical references to, 244;
    burials in, 252;
    orientation of, 254.

  =Calabria=, 312.

  =Calends=, the winter, 195.

  =Calendar=, changes in the, 23;
    Armenian and Turkish, 29;
    Celtic, 186;
    Koptic, 28.

  =Camden=, 289.

  =Canaan=, sacred stones and trees in, 245.

  =Canis Majoris= α (=Sirius=), 108, 117, 143, 311.

  =Candlemas=, 143, 184, 185, 188, 191.

  =Canopus=, 18.

  =Capella=, _see_ Aurigae α.

  =Capricorni= α, 117.

  =Caradon Hill=, 143.

  =Carn Kenidjack=, 278.

  =Carnac=, bonfires at, 40;
    menhirs at, 98, 105, 239;
    sacrifices at, 199.

  =Carruthers=, Mr., 69.

  =Castallack=, Cornwall, 267.

  =Castor=, _see_ Geminorum.

  =Cattle=, drenching in holy wells, 230.

  =Caves=, purpose of, 244, 254.

  “=Cave of Elephanta=,” 256.

  =Celts=, calendar of the, 186, 195;
    intrusion of, 324;
    worship, 32.

  =Ceylon=, 235.

  =Chabas=, 1.

  =Chaldea=, 12.

  =Challacombe=, 158;
    multiple avenue, 149, 159;
    solstitial worship, 314.

  =Chapel Euny=, Cornwall, 219, 226.

  =Chaucer=, 203.

  “=Cheesewring, The=,” 134.

  =Chichén-Itzá=, 32, 308.

  “=Choir Gawr=,” 53.

  =Chûn Castle=, Cornwall, 284, 286.

  =Chûn Cromlech=, Cornwall, 284.

  =Churches=, replaced stone circles, 219.

  =Chysoister=, 323.

  =Circles (stone)=, employment of, 232, 316;
    associated with wells, 228;
    classification of, 36, 37;
    star observations in, 109.

  =Cists=, 164;
    burials in, 323.

  =Clock-stars=, employment of, 108, 294, 296, 298, 299, 304, 308;
    fall into disuse, 322.

  =Coinage=, early British, 52.

  =Collimation-marks=, 316.

  =Constantine=, Cornwall, 269.

  =Cord=, The stretching of the, 1.

  =Cormac=, Archbishop, 181, 189, 195, 204.

  =Cornish=, Mr., 270, 282.

  =Cornwall=, astronomical conditions in, 262;
    azimuths of May sunrise, 264;
    clock-stars in, 299;
    May bathing in, 227;
    stone circles in, 36, 262;
    wells and circles in, 219.

  =Cosens=, Bishop, of Durham, 184.

  =Council of Nice=, 23.

  _Couvade_, 319.

  =Coves=, 37, 316.

  =Cresset-stones=, 190, 256.

  =Cromlechs=, defined, 37;
    employed, 101, 102, 161, 253;
    in cairns, 253;
    uses of, 110, 141, 245, 252, 317.

  =Crosses (stone)=, old monoliths, 141, 273.

  =Crozon=, monuments at, 101.

  =Cult=, change of, 320.

  “=Cultus Lapidum=,” denouncement of, 39.

  =Cumberland=, stone circle in, 36.

  =Cunnington=, Mr., 79, 81, 90.

  =Cups=, for containing lamps, 319.

  =Cursiter=, Mr., 35, 123.

  =Cursus=, The, at Stonehenge, 154, 155, 319.

  D.

  =Danams=, 90.

  =Danckworth=, Dr., 111.

  =Dartmoor=, avenues on, 146, 151, 319.

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