How to Read Stonehenge
A Guided Tour for the Discerning Visitor
© Colin Parker
Gallery 2
Earthwork Features in the Stonehenge
Landscape After Sunrise and Before
Sunset
‘The
combined
orientation
of
these
ancient
pre-
history
linear
and
henge
earthwork
features
in
the
Stonehenge
landscape,
from
different
eras,
and
my
discovery
of
the
coincidental
orientation
of
Christian
stone
churches
constructed
within
henge
earthwork
features
elsewhere,
are
roughly
indicating
dates
in
the
vitally
important
Neolithic
year,
as
well
as
today’s
agricultural calendar.’
‘These
agricultural
calendar
dates
mark
the
sun’s
annual
movements
back
and
forth
along
the
near
viewing
horizon,
from
the
north-east
summer
solstice
extreme
point,
to
the
south-west
winter
solstice
extreme
point.
This
is
defined
today
by
the
Stonehenge
monument’s
axis
(aligned
to
the
winter
solstice
sunset
and
summer
solstice
sunrise)
and
the
nearby
Durrington
Walls
Processional
Avenue
(aligned
to
the
winter
solstice
sunrise
and
summer
solstice sunset).’
‘How
to
Read
Stonehenge
demonstrates
(to
reader
with
little
or
no
understanding
of
the
movements
of
the
sun
and
moon)
how
these
linear
ancient
pre-
history
earthwork
constructions
in
the
Stonehenge
landscape
were
not
the
only
constructions
orientated
to
these
alignments,
for
the
naves
of
the
later
Christian
churches
seen
standing
today
inside
adopted
ancient
pre-history
earthwork
sites
do
the
same,
as
created
by
the
secretive
and
mysterious
stone-carving
operative
freemasons.
Were
these
architect
Master
Masons
using
knowledge
not
in
the
public
domain
but
passed
down
through
the
generations
–
or
is
this
just
a
series
of
fortuitous
coincidences?’