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Hi Mickm Thankyou for your comments. Of course I know that Jeremy Butler gives the length of the Erme Row as about 3320, but he includes the length from the centre of the circle, and the distance from the last stone to the cairn on Green Hill. I took the length of the stone row from Ordnance Survey."Oh Dear", perhaps you should check your facts!
I did not choose my own scale, but simply calculated the scale intended by the row builders.
Of course prehistoric people had the "technical capacity" to measure and record distance, all it would need is a measuring rod, and the will to explore.
Of course they did not use our modern units or our modern language, but we have to translate their work into our language.Perhaps you would have been happier if I had calculated in Megalithic yards.Whatever the units the mathematics is the same.
Hi AngieLake,Thank you for your comment regarding Merrivale. The Northern double Row is targeted on
Wadebridge, 34.11 miles away. Row length X 300 gives this distance.
The Southern Row is targetted on Mawgan Porth, but is complicated by the central cairn. The mathematics of this row requires different scales for each half. Neither of these distances are more than a three days walking.
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