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Notes on Stonehenge1.

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V.— On the Star Observations Made in British Stone Circles.2 THE work I have tried to do so far on our British stone circles has dealt with the observations of the sun made in connection with them, and the attempt to determine a date has been based upon the slow change in the obliquity of the ecliptic which is continually taking place.

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LOCKYER, N. Notes on Stonehenge1. . Nature 71, 535–538 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071535a0

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