Dr. Thomas Gough & Peter Harris
76pp. £10.00
ISBN 978 1 919648 40 8
Following up Harris and Stockdale’s previous NE publication (see books page: now out of print), these authors have revised and expanded their researches on their discovery of a prehistoric unit of length which was used in the construction of many megalithic structures in Britain in the Neolithic. When the dimensions of true stone circles are converted to this ‘new’ length, the value is often a simple multiple of an important lunar time period. These time periods vary about a mean value and so finding the mean would have required many years of record keeping. The fact that these time periods were known in the Neolithic and that many stone circles were built with the accuracy required to record them shows that the knowledge and ability available in the Neolithic in Britain was much greater than is currently believed.
