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SIR NORMAN LOCKYER has taught us to call the year indicated by alignments of stops monuments in Britain the May year. The quarter days of that year are astronomical, being the half-way stations of the sun between the solstices and equinoxes. In fixing these dates, of course the solar quarter days were marked as well, which year is conveniently called the solstitial year. It will clear he way for the discussion of some figures bearing on the subject if the two series of quarter days are presented here side by side, as given in “Stonehenge Astronomically Considered,” p. 23:—
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GRIFFITH, J. The May or Gorsedd Year in English and Welsh Fairs . Nature 76, 477–481 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076477a0
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