The Bush Barrow gold artefacts are a great exhibit. Be sure to view the rhombus shaped gold Plate. Observe the inscribed line patterns around the edges and within. Viewed from either end, a slim pin placed in either of two small holes on the long axis extremities offer alignments with sunrise and/or sunset at the direction of the zigzag lines' intersections with the outer perimeter. These directions mark midsummer solstice, Llew or Lugh harvest festival time, the Autumnal equinox, Halloween or Samain, midwinter solstice, Imbolc at the end of January when lambing was imminent, Spring equinox and then the fertility Beltane festival on May first. The Plate would have found use about the time Stonehenge was erected in 2300 BC.
The Bush Barrow Plate was a transportable means of determining these eight Sun calendar dates for local communities all the way from Cornwall to Kent, to France and even as far away as Nebra in Germany. Known as an 'alidade', the Plate probably served as a means of unifying the Stonehenge Sun calendar dates all the way across the country.
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