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The Age of Stonehenge.—In the August issue of Man Mr. E. Herbert Stone describes some astronomical enquiries into the midsummer sunrise at Stonehenge. The date, 1840 B.C., given here for midsummer sunrise in line with the axis of Stonehenge must, the writer says, be regarded merely as a rough approximation. Owing to want of precision in the data Sir Norman Lockyer considered that the error—plus or minus—might amount to as much as 200 years; that is to say, the actual date is probably not earlier than 2040 B.C., and not later than 1640 B.C.
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Research Items. Nature 110, 291–292 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110291a0
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