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"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."
Perhaps you could explain how one would use a measuring rod for surveying a route that is in part at least by sea. Even on land under good conditions it would be difficult to accurately measure over a distance of 595 miles by this method and much of the terrain would have been extremely difficult.
"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."
You can calculate using whatever units you like. The fact is that it was you who chose the scale. Of merrivale you wrote;
"The mathematics of this row requires different scales for each half."
Why? I think this proves my point.
Perhaps you could also say which spot on the north coast of Scotland you have chosen to measure to and what the significance of that spot to prehistoric peoples was.
Furthermore, Jeremy Butler has noted that the changes in direction within the row can be explained by the need to avoid difficulties in the local terrain such as rivers. Also were it the intention of the builders to produce a route map, why did they make it far straighter than the route actually was?
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