Callanish – Luke Piwalker

Seahenge

A thread on the Megalithic Portal started some 4 or 5 years ago by Geoff Bath was recently booted to the top of the board, and it managed to spark my curiosity. For some reason, I haven’t been terribly interested in Seahenge or Woodhenge – although Thom provided data on the later, I’ve generally foundContinue reading “Seahenge”

Megalithic Miscellany (including more Callanish)

Working on Callanish again, I find myself wanting another look at more Megalithic monument sites, even if nothing definitive emerges yet. In Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany (page 164), Thom describes the geometry of The Giant’s Stones (OSGB Grid ref HU243805) as part of a circle of radius 28 Megalithic Yards joined to aContinue reading “Megalithic Miscellany (including more Callanish)”

Callanish, Part 3

I’ve probably gone and got myself into trouble by attempting to be more comprehensive metrologically in my attempts at interpretation of some of the Callanish “stone circle” sites. On the one hand, such an approach isn’t necessary, nor was it involved in many apparent interpretive successes – that includes interpreting the Great Pyramid interior, whereContinue reading “Callanish, Part 3”

Callanish, Part 2

Some additional Callanish sites covered by Prof. Thom in the book Megalithic Sites in Britain: Callanish III is interesting for being a novel concentric ellipse contained in a circle. I’m very tempted to try to interpret it as making a visual lunar reference but at present I’m somehow having trouble finding data on duration ofContinue reading “Callanish, Part 2”

Callanish, Part 1

As much attention as I’ve paid to Mayan sites in recent weeks, I find myself really missing studies of Megalithic sites in the UK, so I decided to touch base with Callanish, and suddenly found myself surprisingly short on data related to previous interpretive efforts. I’ve posted a little on the subject previously, but someContinue reading “Callanish, Part 1”

Callanish and the Megalithic Foot

Having recently extracted plenty of data from model of Stonehenge now expanding beyond just endless equations based on the sarcen circle, I decided to have a look at Professor Thom’s data on Callanish for the first time in quite awhile, only to find that some of the message there seems to dovetail quite nicely withContinue reading “Callanish and the Megalithic Foot”