Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically ConsideredLockyer, Norman, Sir
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Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered
Lockyer, Norman, Sir
Druids and Druidism; Great Britain -- Antiquities; Stonehenge (England); Sun worship; Temples
10. Copy of Hoare’s Plan of Stonehenge, 1810 46
11. The Leaning Stone in 1901 48
12. The Axis of the Temple of Karnak 56
13. Plan of the Temple of Ramses II. in the Memnonia at Thebes 57
14. One of the remaining Trilithons at Stonehenge 59
15. General Plan of Stonehenge 60
16. The Arrangements for raising the Stone 70
17. The Cradle and Supports 71
18. The Frame used to locate the Finds 73
19. Some of the Flint Implements 77
20. Showing the careful Tooling of the Sarsens 82
21. Face of Rock against which a Stone was made to rest 83
22. The Leaning Stone Upright 85
23. Stonehenge, 1905 86
24. Map of the Stones made by the Ordnance Survey 89
25. Rod placed in the Common Axis of the Circle and Avenue 94
26. Alignments at Le Ménec 99
27. Menhir on Melon Island 100
28. Melon Island, showing Menhir and Cromlech 101
29. Menhirs of St. Dourzal 102
30. Alignment at Lagatjar (photograph) 103
31. Alignments at Lagatjar (plan) 104
32. Menhirs on Solstitial and May Alignments 105
33. Diagram for finding Declination from given Amplitudes or
Azimuths in British Latitudes 113
34. Declinations of Northern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C. 115
35. Declinations of Southern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C. 116
36. The Conditions of Sunrise at the Summer Solstice in Lat.
59° N. 119
37. The Azimuths of the Sunrise (upper limb) at the Summer
Solstice. Lats. N. 59°-47° 121
38. Maeshowe and the Stones of Stenness 124
39. Chief Sight-Lines from the Stones of Stenness 126
40. Variation of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic 100 A.D.-4000 B.C. 130
41. The Sight-Lines at the Hurlers 136
42. The Southern Avenue at Merrivale, looking East 147
43. Avenues, Circle and Stones at Merrivale, with their Azimuths 154
44. Cursus at Stonehenge, nearly parallel to the Merrivale Avenue 155
45. The remains of the Challacombe Avenue 159
46. The Sight-Lines at Trowlesworthy 162
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