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Re: The Saros Cycle and Standing Stones as Tidal Predictors? by Anonymous on Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Hi,
Lots of interesting comments which is great! I am not the expert and just wanted to put the idea before people. I hadnt read the Prof Thom's work mentioned, but he may well have written about the Saros and Tides.
At Bannockburn their were no late arrivals-just the poor folk charging down the hill. The tide was low on the Gorge at the bannockburn and that may have made its fording-for the fleeing English soldiers -even harder. Wooden sticks could have been used to check tidal height, some types of wood can last for centuries in some types of water-but only for decades in salt water. But the sticks didnt need to be permanantly in place at the measuring site. The data would have been transfered to a more permamnet structure. Or the measuring devise could have been stone.
Once the tidal data came in over the 18 years. tides would only be calculated for a few days in advance of sailings. My small knowledge of these things is that Megamithic people did a lot of sea crossings and tidal data would have been vital. If the babylonians could calculate saros-I dont know why the Brits couldnt. People that have the tidal knowledge use it-no one today who was sailing would rely on guesses about the last full moon-they play safe and use the tidal charts which are as important today as they would have been then. Although they are not perfect, affected by storms etc.
I do realise that this doesnt mean they were used, but I think they could have been used and I hope people/experts who look at sites will now ask, Was the saros calculated here? Ashby McGowan

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