Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos

Fig. 54 The rings of ditches and mounds at Windmill Hill, near Avebury. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 55 The directions at right angles to straight sections of the ditches at Windmill Hill. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 56 The Dorset Cursus and its surroundings. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 57 Long barrows in the vicinity of the Dorset Cursus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 58 The changing levels along the Dorset Cursus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 59 The principal alignments of locations at the northern end of the Dorset Cursus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 60 The principal astronomical alignments at the Dorset Cursus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 61 The path of the setting Sun as seen from the centre of the Wyke Down terminal, looking over the long barrow on the ridge of Gussage Hill. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 62 An unfinished cursus on Bokerley Down? (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 63 The Lesser Cursus to the north of Stonehenge. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 64 The geometrical plan of the Lesser Cursus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 65 Alignments of the positions of long barrows in the Stonehenge region. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 66 The distribution of long barrows in Wiltshire. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 67 The long barrows to the east and west of the Stonehenge region. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 68 Heights in metres (above the Ordnance Datum) of long barrows and other key points in the Stonehenge region of Fig. 65. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 69 Alignments of long barrows in the Avebury region. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 70 Alignments of long barrows in the region of Cranborne Chase. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 71 The azimuths of lines connecting three or more long-barrows in the Stonehenge and Avebury regions. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 72 The azimuths of lines connecting three or more long barrows in the Cranborne Chase region. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 73 The chalk levels in a section of the southern bank, 225 m from the western end of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 74 The Greater Cursus at Stonehenge. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 75 One potential method of viewing, using a forked staff, to achieve a standard eye level. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 76 The parallelogram on Coombe Bissett Down. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 77 The probable plan of the parallelogram within the ‘field’ on Coombe Bissett Down. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 78 The White Horse, after Flinders Petrie. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 79 The profile of White Horse Hill. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 80 The setting of the White Horse in relation to other monuments at Uffington. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 81 The profile of the ridge with the White Horse, as it might have been seen from the lower part of the gallery AB in the late fourth millennium BC. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 82 The ‘Long Man’ at Wilmington, East Sussex, after Flinders Petrie, together with the foreshortened version as seen from a point near the modern road. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 83 The surroundings of the Long Man. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 84 The present view of the Long Man from the gate to the road, with the chief stars of Orion for 3480 BC. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 85 The Whiteleaf cross according to Wise (1742) and Petrie (in the 1920s) and the Bledlow Cross according to Petrie. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 86 The surroundings of the Whiteleaf Cross. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 87 The three important sections through the Whiteleaf Cross. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 88 The surroundings of the Bledlow Cross (Wainhill, Buckinghamshire). (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 89 Three sections through the Bledlow Cross. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 90 The outline of the Cerne Giant, following Flinders Petrie. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 91 A typical early medieval manuscript illustration of the classical figure representing the constellation of Hercules. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 92 A short section of the ecliptic, the annual path of the Sun through the stars. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 93 Extreme directions of the rising and setting of the upper limb of the Sun and Moon, for altitude zero at four specimen latitudes. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 94 The area around the Greater Stonehenge Cursus (a repeat of an earlier figure). (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 95 The profile of the ground along the axis of the first section of the Stonehenge Avenue. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 96 Stones in the Corringdon Ball group on Dartmoor, after W. C. Lukis (1879). (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 97 The terminal stones for rows in the Corringdon Ball group. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 98 The Avebury circles and avenues, and their surroundings. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 99 The northern sections of the Kennet Avenue. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 100 Stones of the Kennet Avenue (1961) in the neighbourhood of West Kennet village, after Isobel Smith. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 101 Parts of the Kennet Avenue known chiefly through resistivity surveys of the ground to the south of stones 37 (after P. J. Ucko and others). (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 102 The pattern of some of the potential lines of sight to lunar phenomena, seen across the Kennet Avenue. (#litres_trial_promo)

Fig. 103 The Kennett Avenue. An idealization of the rectangular cells formed around lunar lines and lines north–south, or lunar lines and lines east–west. (#litres_trial_promo)