I can't prove that the concrete posts are laid out incorrectly or not.
English Heritage does not have any records regarding the placing of the posts.
I believe that the original plans by Lt-Col Cunnington are correct.
But the orientation of the lay-out of the concrete posts is probably incorrect by 13 degrees.
Visualizing the arrangement of posts at The Sanctuary is difficult.
Here is a method to help make sense of what you see when you are there.
There are two rings of blue-concrete rectangular markers
The inner ring contains 16 faded blue concrete rectangles marking positions where Sarcen stones once blocked the center of The Sanctuary.
For the purposes of finding the four solar paths, this is the ring to use.
If you look in the eastern- from center- side of the concrete circle, you will see that one marker has a buried stone in front of it.
This marks the position of a burial.
Call it marker 1, and number the blue concrete markers as in the diagram below.
A concrete marker indicates the center of each of the four 'paths'.
Taking the burial as position 1
Concrete markers number 3, 7, 11 and 15 indicate the center point of each path.
The paths were made of wooden posts, so they terminate in a red concrete cylinder marker.
The original entrance to the wooden Sanctuary was probably indicated by two large post holes either side of blue-concrete marker, number 7.
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English Heritage does not have any records regarding the placing of the posts.
I believe that the original plans by Lt-Col Cunnington are correct.
But the orientation of the lay-out of the concrete posts is probably incorrect by 13 degrees.
Visualizing the arrangement of posts at The Sanctuary is difficult.
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| Photograph taken from marker no:11. 7th July 2013. |
There are two rings of blue-concrete rectangular markers
The inner ring contains 16 faded blue concrete rectangles marking positions where Sarcen stones once blocked the center of The Sanctuary.
For the purposes of finding the four solar paths, this is the ring to use.
If you look in the eastern- from center- side of the concrete circle, you will see that one marker has a buried stone in front of it.
This marks the position of a burial.
Call it marker 1, and number the blue concrete markers as in the diagram below.
Taking the burial as position 1
Concrete markers number 3, 7, 11 and 15 indicate the center point of each path.
The paths were made of wooden posts, so they terminate in a red concrete cylinder marker.
The original entrance to the wooden Sanctuary was probably indicated by two large post holes either side of blue-concrete marker, number 7.
Continue: http://thu8an.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/magnetic.html
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