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Ancient Eclipses in Scotland.—Mr. L. MacLellan Mann writes with reference to his claim of having identified a record on stone of the eclipse of B.C. 2983 Mar. 28 (see NATURE, NOV. 8, p. 743). As regards the time of day at which the eclipse occurred, he notes that the 0.6 day (about 2.30 P.M. Greenwich) found by the writer of the note in NATURE, is in good agreement with the value 0.63 found by C. Schoch, and with the value 0.66 which Mr. Mann obtains from the record on the stone; he notes that this may be the end of the eclipse. He states that he obtained the year by his interpretation of the system of wheel-like markings on the stone, which he takes to be cycles of years.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 126, 893 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126893a0
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