On Stonehenge
by Fred Hoyle · first published 1977
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Argues that the purpose of Stonehenge was to predict the occurrence of eclipses, and reviews the resulting cultural implications.
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…[3] as well as the pop science books by Gerald Hawkins. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Thom [2] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1999JHAS...30...83R... [3] http://www.amazon.com/On-Stonehenge-Fred-Hoyle/dp/0716703637 PS: remember that climate in Britain was very different from now and changed a lot during the construction of megalithic sites. Inland Britain was as you say covered with dense…
on “New Theory on Why Stonehenge Was Built” ↗…Hawkins figures (and being generally unimpressed). Also nothing about the Thoms (Alexander and Archie) who surveyed many other stone circles, or perhaps a passing reference to John North's chunky book on Stonehenge itself. Latterly Euan MacKie was working out how exactly you could test an hypothesis about ancient observers marking a celestial alignment of some type anywhere in the latitudes of Britain. A multi-route…
on “1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer” ↗