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Quite right, the whole point here is that as the sun progressed through the year the vision changed from one of a rise in the morning to one of set in the evening and the sun position in relation to the Pleiades dictated when this would be.
The book Measurements of the Gods has more detail regarding the observations where a number of explanatory illustrations from Skymap can be seen. These clarify the picture.
Regarding small inaccuracies, yes they do occur but when the diameter of the observed object is the is the size of the sun, moon or Pleiades there is little doubt that the picture would be correct simply due to the sizes involved. Refraction would not obviate this as it would with a singular star close to the horizon. Again, it is easy to simply state, as some often do, that because pinpoint accuracy cannot be guaranteed that the theory is at fault.
These stones among others were erected for what purpose? If they have associations with objects in the sky then it is unlikely in the extreme to be coincidence. Far too much has been labelled religious etc in archaeology simply because it has not been fully understood. That does not reflect upon the skies necessarily as while the lights were probably seen as gods they were also practical. The lights denoted times of year which indicated a change in weather or tide in coastal region and even a change of tide can imply a change of weather. The only reliable entity in the life of anyone in those far off days was the sky and the lights that daily travelled across its dome.
The sky was observed very closely as numerous ancient texts from other regions of the same era tell us and as these texts give a good idea of what was observed then logically the same entities were seen and recorded here in Britain. All observed the same sky.
Harry
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