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In Stonehenge Decoded (Fontana 9th Impression page 147). He states Stonehenge I is orientated to midsummer sunrise (declination +24deg). It was aligned to 27deg, which off the top of my head is around 6 degrees difference in azimuth or 12 sun diameters.
Atkinson did a lot of things, including failing to publish his Stonehenge exacavation reports properly. But one of the things he did publish was a comprehensive rebuttal of Hawkins's claims almost forty years ago. What Atkinson did at Silbury Hill isn't going to make Hawkins's work any more accurate.
It may well be a shame that his work wasn't discussed in more depth, because he certainly popularised the idea of accurate alignments at Stonehenge, but given the tight time slot they had I wouldn't use the word 'appalling' to describe their dismissal of Hawkins.
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