Orientations of Dolmens of West-Central France

Hoskin, Michael

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“…At Matarrubilla (Hoskin 2001), as already mentioned, the passage measures no less than 37 m. It is perfectly straight, and from the inner (tholos) chamber, one can glimpse only a tiny patch of sky. Given the exceptional form and length of the passage, it is difficult to believe that this tiny patch was without significance for the builders.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…The most striking example of this is found in the seven-stone antas of the Alentejo (Hoskin 2001). Every single one of the 177 antas measured by the writer and colleagues faced within the range of sunrise (Fig.…”

Section: Tombs Of Iberia and Western Francementioning

confidence: 92%

“…At the principal tholos site of Los Millares in Almeria (Hoskin 2001), for example, the great majority of the tombs faced within the range of sunrise (Fig. 95.5, left), but there are just two tombs that are otherwise normal but had highly anomalous orientations, for they faced not far from southwest.…”

Section: Tombs Of Iberia and Western Francementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is therefore a great variety of tomb in the region; but almost all have a well-defined orientation, the line of sight of the bodies within as they are imagined to be "looking" out through the entrance (Hoskin 2001). At its simplest, this orientation is the direction from the midpoint of the backstone to the midpoint of the entrance, and this is customarily measured in azimuth, the angle clockwise from true north.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Mycenae in southern Greece in the third quarter of the second millennium BC, nine great tholos tombs were built to house royal burials, and these seem simply to face downhill, doubtless for ease of construction (Hoskin 2001). In County Sligo in Ireland, there is a huge cairn on the summit of Knocknarea and graves in the surrounding area often face this cairn.…”

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Patterns of Orientation in the Megalithic Tombs of the Western Mediterranean

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2014

Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy

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A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland

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2013

J Archaeol Method Theory

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It has already been empirically verified that for many Bronze Age monuments erected in Scotland between 1400-900 BC, there was a concerted effort on behalf of the builders to align their monuments to astronomical bodies on the horizon. It has also been found that there are two common sets of complex landscape and astronomical patternings, combining specific horizon qualities (like distance and elevation) with the rising and setting points of particular astronomical phenomena. However, it has only been very recently demonstrated by us that that the visible astronomical-landscape variables found at Bronze Age sites on the inner isles and mainland of western Scotland were first established nearly two millennia earlier, with the erection of the mooted first standing-stone 'great circles' in Britain: Callanish and Stenness of Scotland. In this paper we demonstrate the connection between all of these monuments and the large LN circles south of Scotland, namely those of Castlerigg and Swinside in Cumbria, England.

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Orientations of dolmens in Western Europe

Hoskin¹

2009

Proc. IAU

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Abstract. The communal tombs ('dolmens') constructed through Europe and the Mediterranean region in the late Neolithic nearly always had an entrance to permit the introduction of further bodies, and hence an orientation. Extensive fieldwork shows that the builders always felt constrained to observe a custom of orientation, and in most of Western Europe the custom may well have been to face the rising Sun at some time of year, or the Sun after it had risen. But at Fontvieille near Arles the local custom was quite different, with tombs facing sunset or the Sun when descending. In southwest France and neighbouring parts of Cataluña the two customs are in conflict.

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Orientations of Dolmens of West-Central France

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Patterns of Orientation in the Megalithic Tombs of the Western Mediterranean

Patterns of Orientation in the Megalithic Tombs of the Western Mediterranean

A Recreation of Visual Engagement and the Revelation of World Views in Bronze Age Scotland

Orientations of dolmens in Western Europe

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