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 for a shape called a flattened circle, survivors of these being quite commonly found in the British Isles. Thom’s proposals appear to have been rejected through (a) disbelief that the Neolithic builders of megalithic monuments could have generated such sophistication using only ropes and stakes and (b) through assertions that real structures do not obey the geometry he overlaid upon his surveys.
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