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Watchers of the Dawn
a unique ebook and CD-ROM by Douglas Scott
Watchers of the Dawn is the result of 20 years research by Douglas Scott, looking at how and why our ancient ancestors aligned standing stones and burial cairns to the sun and moon. This is a 323-page ebook and CD guide to more than 100 prehistoric sites throughout Scotland, shown in over 500 colour pictures. 83 of these show unique images of the actual rising or setting sun from cupmarked standing stones and burial cairns throughout Scotland.
'Celtic' folklore is also explored to explain how the ancient cup and ring mark rock carvings were used to contact the ancestor earth gods to ensure the fertility of the land. Cultural continuity from the Bronze Age to the Pictish period is shown in how cup and ringmarks developed into the Pictish Double Disc symbol. The book also guides you to the best times to visit these ancient sacred places so you too can have a similar experience as our ancestors had 4000 years ago.
In Adobe PDF format for easy reading, suitable for all types of PC or Mac.
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Dougie, pictured with Alexander Thom's theodolite at Stittingham Cairn, Ardross, Easter Ross, 1995.
Dougie Scott lives in Tain, Easter-Ross and has been running his business Tain Silver for over twenty years. His Celtic jewellery has been inspired by the Book of Kells and the Book of Lindisfarne and from the great Pictish cross slabs, which are common throughout the northeast of Scotland. Although interested in astronomy and archaeology for over 40 years, in the early 1980?s he became passionate about pre-historic astronomy and rock art after visiting the Edderton stone circle with its standing stone outlier, which is also carved with Pictish symbols. Shortly after contacting Professor Alexander Thom about the site, the professor gave him his theodolite, so he could survey the orientation of the stone from the circle. Since then he has been surveying standing stone alignments and cairn and then returning to photograph the sun or moon as they rise and set in line with the stones. This has culminated in his full colour 323-page e-book CD guide the Watchers of the Dawn.
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