Title Page : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], STONEHENGE AND OTHER BRITISH STONE MONUMENTS ASTRONOMICALLY CONSIDERED BY SIR NORMAN LOCKYER, K.C.B., F.R.S. DIRECTOR OF THE SOLAR PHYSICS OBSERVATORY HON. LLD., GLASGOW; HON. SC.D., CAMBRIDGE;...
Chapter Xxiv. The May Year In South West Cornwall : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 261 CHAPTER XXIV THE MAY-YEAR IN SOUTH-WEST CORNWALL THE previous pages of this volume have apparently dealt with two distinct subjects; the use of the British monuments on the orientati...
Chapter Xii. Astronomical Hints For Archaeologists : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 118 CHAPTER XII ASTRONOMICAL HINTS FOR ARCHOLOGISTS--"CONTINUED". I NEXT come to the Sun observations. First we must consider the astronomical differences between the rising of a star...
Chapter X. The May And June Worships In Brittany : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 96 CHAPTER X THE MAY AND JUNE WORSHIPS IN BRITTANY I PURPOSE next to inquire whether in the wonderful series of Megalithic remains in Brittany, remains more extensive than any in Britain, any...
Chapter Xxix. A Short History Of Sun Temples : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 304 CHAPTER XXIX A SHORT HISTORY OF SUN TEMPLES "The Original Cult" I HAVE given detailed evidence showing that the first circle builders in Britain worshipped the May-year sun whether they...
Preface : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. v PREFACE IN continuation of my work on the astronomical uses of the Egyptian Temples, I have from time to time, when leisure has permitted, given attention to some of the stone circles...
Chapter Xxiii. The Similarity Of The Semitic : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 252 CHAPTER XXIII THE SIMILARITY OF THE SEMITIC AND BRITISH WORSHIPS I PROPOSE in this chapter to bring into juxtaposition the various British and Semitic-Egyptian practices which we have so...
Chapter Xxviii. The Clock Stars In Egypt : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 294 CHAPTER XXVIII THE CLOCK-STARS IN EGYPT AND BRITAIN. I HAVE now finished my astronomical reconnaissance of the British monuments. I trust I have shown how important it is that my holiday...
Chapter Iv. The Various New Year Days : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 25 CHAPTER IV THE VARIOUS NEW-YEAR DAYS WITH regard to the astronomical year it may be stated that each solstice and equinox has in turn in some country or another, and even in the same...
Chapter Xxvii. Some Other Cornish Monuments : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 287 CHAPTER XXVII SOME OTHER CORNISH MONUMENTS "Boscawen-un; N. Lat". 50 5 20 MY wife and I visited Boscawen-un on a pouring day, when it was impossible to make any observations. Mr. Hort...
Chapter Xxii. Where Did The British Worship : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 232 CHAPTER XXII WHERE DID THE BRITISH WORSHIP ORIGINATE? THE recent chapters have, I think, established, by the evidence derived from folklore and tradition, that there was in the long past...
Chapter Ii. The Astronomical Divisions Of The Year : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 12 CHAPTER II THE ASTRONOMICAL DIVISIONS OF THE YEAR IT is next important to deal with the yearly path of the sun, with a view of studying the relation of the various points of the horiz...
Chapter I. Introductory : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 1 STONEHENGE CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY IN the book I published ten years ago, entitled "The Dawn of Astronomy," I gave a pretty full account of the principles and the methods of observati...
List Of Illustrations : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. xi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. PAGE 1. Present Sun Worship in Japan 4 2. The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the North Pole 5 3. The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the Equator 6 4...
Untitled : After centuries of speculation the origin, purpose, and construction of Stonehenge is still a mystery. Out of the hundreds of books on the subject, a few stand out. Lockyer's careful survey of the monument and other Northern European megaliths is one of these. Lockyer, who had spotless academic...
Chapter Xvi. The Dartmoor Avenues : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 157 CHAPTER XVI THE DARTMOOR AVENUES ("CONTINUED") MY inquiries began at Merrivale because there is a circle associated with the avenues a little to the south of the west end of the longest;...
Chapter Xi. Astronomical Hints For Archaeologists : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 107 CHAPTER XI ASTRONOMICAL HINTS FOR ARCHOLOGISTS THE foregoing chapters will have shown that in dealing with the ancient monuments from an astronomical point of view, we have to consider...
Chapter Iii. The Agricultural Divisions : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 17 CHAPTER III THE AGRICULTURAL DIVISIONS OF THE YEAR THE early peoples have been very much misrepresented, and held to leave been uninstructed, by several writers who have not considered wh...
Chapter Vi. General Architecture Of Stonehenge : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 55 CHAPTER VI GENERAL ARCHITECTURE OF STONEHENGE ALTHOUGH I have before hinted that the astronomical use of the Egyptian temples and British circles was the same, there is at first sight...
Chapter Xxvi. The Tregaseal Circles : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 277 CHAPTER XXVI THE TREGASEAL CIRCLES (LAT. 50 8.25 N., LONG. 5 39 25 W.) THERE are two circles situated on Truthwall Common near to Tregaseal and not far from St. Just; the one is nearly...
Chapter Xiii. Stenness : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 123 CHAPTER XIII STENNESS (LAT. 597 N.) I WROTE a good deal in "Nature" 1 on sun and star temples in 1891, and Mr. Lewis the next year expressed the opinion that the British stone monuments...
Chapter Xxi. Holy Wells And Streams : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 213 CHAPTER XXI HOLY WELLS AND STREAMS I HAVE thought it most important to look up this subject with a view of seeing whether any clues were available which could help us to associate...
Chapter Xxx. The Life Of The Astronomer Priests : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 316 CHAPTER XXX THE LIFE OF THE ASTRONOMER-PRIESTS THE facts contained in the preceding chapters have suggested, at all events, that whatever else went on some four thousand years ago...
Chapter V. Conditions And Traditions At Stonehenge : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 34 CHAPTER V CONDITIONS AND TRADITIONS AT STONEHENGE AFTER Mr. Penrose, by his admirable observations in Greece, had shown that the orientation theory accounted as satisfactorily...
Chapter Xviii. Folklore And Tradition : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 178 CHAPTER XVIII FOLKLORE AND TRADITION WE have so far considered the circles at Stonehenge, Stenness, the Hurlers and Stanton Drew, and the avenues in Brittany and on Dartmoor. Before I...
Chapter Xv. The Dartmoor Avenues : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 145 CHAPTER XV THE DARTMOOR AVENUES IN Chapter XI. I referred to the very numerous alignments of stones in Brittany, and I was allowed by Lieutenant Devoir, of the French Navy, to give some...
Chapter Ix. Was There An Earlier Circle : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 88 CHAPTER IX WAS THERE AN EARLIER CIRCLE? WHEN we come to examine Stonehenge carefully in relation to the orientation theory, it soon becomes clear that its outer circle of upright stones...
Chapter Xix. Sacred Fires : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 189 CHAPTER XIX SACRED FIRES THE magnificent collection of facts bearing on this subject which has been brought together by Mr. Frazer in The Golden Bough renders its unnecessary for me...
Chapter Xvii. Stanton Drew : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 166 CHAPTER XVII STANTON DREW (LAT. 51 19 N.) OTHER circles to which I have given some attention are at Stanton Drew in Somerset. I regret to say that I have not as yet had an opportunity...
Appendices. I. Details Of The Theodolite : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 325 APPENDICES I. DETAILS OF THE THEODOLITE OBSERVATIONS AT STONEHENGE THE instrument chiefly employed was a six-inch transit theodolite by Cooke with verniers reading to 20 in altitude...
Chapter Vii. Astronomical Observations : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 62 CHAPTER VII ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS AT STONEHENGE IN 1901 1 AN investigation was undertaken by Mr. Penrose and myself in the spring of 1901, as a sequel to analogous work in Egypt...
Appendices. Ii. Hints On Making, And Method : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 329 II: HINTS ON MAKING, AND METHOD OF REDUCING, THE FIELD OBSERVATIONS. IT will probably be found useful if I give here a few hints as to the precautions which must be taken in making...
Chapter Xiv. The Hurlers : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 133 CHAPTER XIV. THE HURLERS (LAT. 50 31 N.) THE sight-lines to which I have drawn attention in relation to the stones of Stenness had to do with the places of sunrise and sunset in the May...
Chapter Xx. Sacred Trees : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 200 CHAPTER XX SACRED TREES THE subject of tree-worship is a vast one, as anyone may gather who will read the "Golden Bough". Fortunately for my readers it is not necessary to discuss...
Chapter Viii. Archeological Observations : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 69 CHAPTER VIII ARCHEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT STONEHENGE, 1901 SOON after Mr. Penrose and myself had made our astronomical survey of Stonehenge in 1901, some archological results...
Chapter Xxv. The Merry Maidens Circle : * "Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered", by Norman Lockyer, [1906], p. 265 CHAPTER XXV THE MERRY MAIDENS CIRCLE (LAT. 50 4 N.) ONE of the best preserved circles that I know of is near Penzance. It is called the Merry Maidens 1 (Dawns-Maen), and is thus described...