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- Dun Torcuill: The Broch that Modelled the World
image above courtesy Marc Calhoun Script This video introduces an article on a Scottish iron-age stone tower or brock which encoded the size of the Earth. You can view the full article on sacred dot number sciences dot org, searching for BROCK, spelt B R O C H. In the picture above [1] the inner profile of … Continue reading “Dun Torcuill: The Broch that Modelled the World” - Multiple Squares to form Flattened Circle Megaliths
above: a 28 square grid with double, triple (top), and four-square rectangles (red), plus (gray again) the triple rectangles within class B Contents 1. Problems with Thom’s Stone Circle Geometries. 2. Egyptian Grids of Multiple Squares. 3. Generating Flattened Circles using a Grid of Squares. ABSTRACT This paper reviews the geometries proposed by Alexander Thom … Continue reading “Multiple Squares to form Flattened Circle Megaliths” - Astronomical Rock Art at Stoupe Brow, Fylingdales
first published 28 October 2016 I recently came across Rock Art and Ritual by Brian Smith and Alan Walker, (subtitled Interpreting the Prehistoric landscapes of the North York Moors. Stroud: History Press 2008. 38.). It tells the story: Following a wildfire of many square miles of the North Yorkshire Moors, thought ecologically devastating, those interested … Continue reading “Astronomical Rock Art at Stoupe Brow, Fylingdales” - Chalk Drums to Symbolise Pi and Layout Monuments
December 2016 in numbersciences.org Hits: 3872 Perhaps as early as 4000 BC, there was a tradition of making chalk drums. Three highly decorated examples were found in a grave dated between 2600 and 2000 BC in Folkton, northern England and one undecorated chalk drum in southern England at Lavant in an upland downs known for … Continue reading “Chalk Drums to Symbolise Pi and Layout Monuments” - The Approximation of π on Earth
π is a transcendental ratio existing between a diameter/ radius and circumference of a circle. A circle is an expression of eternity in that the circumference, if travelled upon, repeats eternally. The earths shape would be circular if the planet did not spin. Only the equator is now circular and enlarged, whilst the north and … Continue reading “The Approximation of π on Earth” - π and the Megalithic Yard
The surveyor of megalithic monuments in Britain, Alexander Thom (1894 – 1985), thought the builders had a single measure called the Megalithic Yard which he found in the geometry of the monuments when these were based upon whole number geometries such as Pythagorean triangles. His first estimate was around 2.72 feet and his second and … Continue reading “π and the Megalithic Yard” - Seven, Eleven and Equal Perimeters
above: image of applications involving sacred geometry based upon pi as 22/7 and a circle of equal perimeter to a square, from a previous post. The geometrical and other relationships between different numbers are easily found to be useful through simple experiments. The earliest approximations to pi (22/7) was key in the megalithic and later … Continue reading “Seven, Eleven and Equal Perimeters” - How Geometries transformed Time Counts into Circles
Above: example of the geometry that can generate one or more circles, equal to a linear time count, in the counting units explained below. It is clear, one so-called “sacred” geometry was in fact a completely pragmatic method in which the fourfold nature of astronomical day and month counts allowed the circularization of counts, once … Continue reading “How Geometries transformed Time Counts into Circles” - The Stonehenge Trilithons (Part 2): Day-Inch Counting
In the previous article, it was shown that the form of the trilithons, of five taller double sarsens approximating to a five-pointed star, matches the astronomical phenomena of the successive morning and evening stars, as Venus approaches Earth from the east and then recedes to the west as the morning pass. On approach, the planet … Continue reading “The Stonehenge Trilithons (Part 2): Day-Inch Counting” - The Stonehenge trilithons as synods of Venus
Figure 1 The five Trilithons of Stonehenge 3, highlighted in yellow within the Sarsen ring to express the five evening and morning star couplets which occur in eight practical years of 365 days. Plan from Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, Oxford U.P. Central portion is fig.3, upside down to match the horseshoe of trilithons.. … Continue reading “The Stonehenge trilithons as synods of Venus” - Sacred Number and the Lords of Time
Back Cover ANCIENT MYSTERIES “Heath has done a superb job of collating his own work on the subject of megaliths with the objective views of many other researchers in the field. I therefore do not merely recommend reading this book but can state unequivocally it is a must read.”–John Neal, British metrologist and researcher and … Continue reading “Sacred Number and the Lords of Time” - Durrington Walls and its massive circle of Pits
Recent analysis of animal bones within Durrington Walls indicated, to the archaeologists involved, that people had travelled there from all over the British mainland, along with animals then eaten inside the henge[1]. But what would these people be doing there? It had earlier been suggested that an elite responsible for building Stonehenge lived in a … Continue reading “Durrington Walls and its massive circle of Pits” - The Avebury Square within it’s Southern Circle
Soil resistance work (“geophys”), by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, of the land inside the southern stone circle of Avebury Henge, has revealed more about the Obelisk and lines of standing stones, which appear to have formed a near-square rectangle. Information can be hard to obtain when work is yet to be published but … Continue reading “The Avebury Square within it’s Southern Circle” - Silbury Hill: Metrological Key to the Model of the Earth between Stonehenge & Avebury
Archived: 11 August 2012 The exact location of Silbury Hill is as mysterious as the purpose of the Hill itself, a thirty degree cone, only recently with a flat top, overlooking Avebury and the surrounding hills. The Hill figures in John Michell’s model of the Earth between Stonehenge and Avebury in which one quarter of a degree … Continue reading “Silbury Hill: Metrological Key to the Model of the Earth between Stonehenge & Avebury” - Film of John Michell at Lundy Island
This is a film by me of John Michell before his death. It was made on Lundy Island at which time he was working on some of his last published ideas about the British Isles from the perspective of sacred geometry and metrology, both fields in which John made outstanding contributions including The View Over Atlantis, Dimensions of Paradise and Ancient Metrology. It … Continue reading “Film of John Michell at Lundy Island” - Astronomical Time within Clava Cairns
In North East Scotland, near Inverness, lies Balnuaran of Clava, a group of three cairns with a unique and distinctive style, called Clava cairns; of which evidence of 80 examples have been found in that region. They are round, having an inner and outer kerb of upright stones between which are an infill of stones. … Continue reading “Astronomical Time within Clava Cairns” - Old Yard’s Mastery of the Square Root of 2
The old yard was almost identical to the yard of three feet, but just one hundredth part smaller at 2.87 feet. This gives its foot value as 99/100 feet, a value belonging to a module very close to the English/Greek which defines one relative to the rational ratios of the Historical modules. So why was … Continue reading “Old Yard’s Mastery of the Square Root of 2” - Thornborough Henge as Moon’s Maximum Standstill
The three henges appear to align to the three notable manifestations to the north west of the northerly moon setting at maximum standstill. The distance between northern and southern henge entrances could count 3400 days, each 5/8th of a foot (7.5 inches), enabling a “there and back again” counting of the 6800 days (18.618 solar … Continue reading “Thornborough Henge as Moon’s Maximum Standstill” - Harmonic Astronomy within Seascale Flattened Circle
first published in July 2018 Only two type-D stone circles (see figure 3) are known to exist, called Roughtor (in Cornwall) and Seascale (in Cumbria). Seascale is assessed below, for the potential this type of flattened circle had to provide megalithic astronomers with a calendrical observatory. Seascale could also have modelled the harmonic ratios of … Continue reading “Harmonic Astronomy within Seascale Flattened Circle”