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Hello, thanks for the feedback, truth be told I wasn't expecting to be asked about the music - really just some atmospheric tracks I like, with no direct connection to the talk - so I just briefly said the track listing was on the web site if people were interested - there really wasn't anything else to add.
I am sorry the Kent megalith captions were switched, there were three photos/sites on one slide page shown in turn, which probably wasn't a good way to do it. The caption ordering should have been Chestnuts, Coldrum, Kit’s Coty rather than Coldrum, Chestnuts, Kit’s Coty.
That slide was really just setting the scene for the main focus of the local section I had added specially for the talk, which went into some detail on what I think is a really interesting and important Neolithic Long House close by to the White Horse stone - of which more information here in the comments on this page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6945
On the length, Martin from Waterstones had initially said keep it to under an hour, but when he saw my slides a few days before he insisted I keep them all as he thought it was so interesting. Partly it was longer than usual due to the addition of the above section on the longhouse.
I think the point from a member of the audience at the end was that the various ideas, eg acoustics, alignments, feasting, journeying, colours of stones and stars, cover a wide range of topics, and don't necessarily give a coherent single answer to what these sites were about. This is part of the point of the talk, and indeed the information boxes in the book on which it is based, to touch upon many different ideas and theories, rather than come along like some Graham Hancock character (on next week at Waterstones Canterbury incidentally)
I was asked in the questions to sum up what I thought my overriding idea of what the builders were doing and I said 'reverence of the ancestors', which I think was quite clear. I had an interesting comment afterwards that with all this interest in ancestors perhaps the builders believed in re-incarnation, which I've not seen suggested before and is food for thought.
When asked about archaeoastronomy (sorry I mean 'skyscape archaeology!') I agreed some of it was quite speculative and that I didn't think it wasn't the central point of these monuments - and not the main focus of archaeologists' work on them either - that being the point of the 'add on' comment - I think it's an extra dimension to their design, not the be all and end all.
Although I find local alignments significant, and touched upon them in several places, including the orientation of Gaby Burns' carved boulder monuments, I can't pretend I'm a fan of country/continent wide ley lines, what more could I say. Incidentally the link to Gaby's free book - well worth a look - is here http://www.cavanburren.ie/
Can I also link you towards a review of my talk by the Devon Dowsers, which was substantially the same talk, minus the Kent additions:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=608079869647795&id=586677695121346
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