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THIS investigation was undertaken in the spring of the present year, as a sequel to analogous work in Egypt and Greece, with a view to determine whether the orientation theory could throw any light upon the date of the foundation of Stonehenge, concerning which authorities vary in their estimate by some thousands of years. We beg to lay before the Royal Society the results derived from a careful study of its orientation for the purpose of arriving at the probable date of its foundation astronomically. This is not, indeed, the first attempt to obtain the date of Stonehenge by means of astronomical considerations. In Mr. Godfrey Higgins' work2 the author refers to a method of attack connected with precession. This furnished him with the date 4000 B.C.
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"Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," vol. xviii. No. 232. Table ix. (Washington, 1873.)
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An Attempt to Ascertain the Date of the Original Construction of Stonehenge From Its Orientation 1 . Nature 65, 55–57 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065055a0
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