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Winter solsticial sunrise at Bullstones , 2010 December 21, photographed by Doug Pickford. The centre stone is at bottom of picture. If, as previously suggested, the monument dates to 1500-2000BC, the sunrise would have been about two solar diameters rightwards of the present alignment owing to the changing obliquity of the ecliptic.

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Winter solsticial sunrise at Bullstones , 2010 December 21, photographed by Doug Pickford. The centre stone is at bottom of picture. If, as previously suggested, the monument dates to 1500-2000BC, the sunrise would have been about two solar diameters rightwards of the present alignment owing to the changing obliquity of the ecliptic.

Posted Comments:

AngieLake (2010-12-24)
Interesting to see the alignment and well captured. Thank you.

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