Sir Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who founded the journal Nature, turns from Egyptian temples to the stone circles of Britain. Drawing on his own observations at Stonehenge in 1901, he tests whether its axis was laid out on the midsummer sunrise, and ranges across the old astronomical and farming divisions of the year, the various New Year days, and the May and June worships of Brittany.
A founding text of archaeoastronomy, its dating methods since superseded but its questions still asked by every visitor at the solstice. Download the free EPUB.