Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos. John North

href="#ulink_069c79a2-bfb1-5c29-8e29-247bd6e15b6b">Fig. 42 The front ditch and (original) rear ditch of the long barrow Skendleby 2A.

       Fig. 43 Outlines of the ditches surrounding the long barrow at Barrows Hills, Radley.

       Fig. 44 Potential geometrical construction lines for the entire original system of ditch and mound at Radley.

       Fig. 45 The probable overall shape of the Radley mound, in idealized form.

       Fig. 46 The mound area and inner ditches of the Radley long barrow, in the form of a parallelogram.

       Fig. 47 The Grendon square barrow with potential lines of sight and possible construction lines.

       Fig. 48 The two Grendon ring ditches surrounding the earlier square barrow.

       Fig. 49 General plan of the dry-stone walls of the Hazleton North cairn (after Alan Saville).

       Fig. 50 A detail of Fig. 52.

       Fig. 51 The stake holes and post holes under the Hazleton North cairn.

       Fig. 52 The proposed cell structure of the Hazleton North mound, with construction lines.

       Fig. 53 The probable overall shape of Hazleton North.

       Fig. 54 The rings of ditches and mounds at Windmill Hill, near Avebury.

       Fig. 55 The directions at right angles to straight sections of the ditches at Windmill Hill.

       Fig. 56 The Dorset Cursus and its surroundings.

       Fig. 57 Long barrows in the vicinity of the Dorset Cursus.

       Fig. 58 The changing levels along the Dorset Cursus.

       Fig. 59 The principal alignments of locations at the northern end of the Dorset Cursus.

       Fig. 60 The principal astronomical alignments at the Dorset Cursus.

       Fig. 61 The path of the setting Sun as seen from the centre of the Wyke Down terminal, looking over the long barrow on the ridge of Gussage Hill.

       Fig. 62 An unfinished cursus on Bokerley Down?

       Fig. 63 The Lesser Cursus to the north of Stonehenge.

       Fig. 64 The geometrical plan of the Lesser Cursus.

       Fig. 65 Alignments of the positions of long barrows in the Stonehenge region.

       Fig. 66 The distribution of long barrows in Wiltshire.

       Fig. 67 The long barrows to the east and west of the Stonehenge region.

       Fig. 68 Heights in metres (above the Ordnance Datum) of long barrows and other key points in the Stonehenge region of Fig. 65.

       Fig. 69 Alignments of long barrows in the Avebury region.

       Fig. 70 Alignments of long barrows in the region of Cranborne Chase.

       Fig. 71 The azimuths of lines connecting three or more long-barrows in the Stonehenge and Avebury regions.

       Fig. 72 The azimuths of lines connecting three or more long barrows in the Cranborne Chase region.

       Fig. 73 The chalk levels in a section of the southern bank, 225 m from the western end of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus.

       Fig. 74 The Greater Cursus at Stonehenge.

       Fig. 75 One potential method of viewing, using a forked staff, to achieve a standard eye level.

       Fig. 76 The parallelogram on Coombe Bissett Down.

       Fig. 77 The probable plan of the parallelogram within the ‘field’ on Coombe Bissett Down.

       Fig. 78 The White Horse, after Flinders Petrie.

       Fig. 79 The profile of White Horse Hill.

       Fig. 80 The setting of the White Horse in relation to other monuments at Uffington.

       Fig. 81 The profile of the ridge with the White Horse, as it might have been seen from the lower part of the gallery AB in the late fourth millennium BC.

       Fig. 82 The ‘Long Man’ at Wilmington, East Sussex, after Flinders Petrie, together with the foreshortened version as seen from a point near the modern road.

       Fig. 83 The surroundings of the Long Man.

       Fig. 84 The present view of the Long Man from the gate to the road, with the chief stars of Orion for 3480 BC.

       Fig. 85 The Whiteleaf cross according to Wise (1742) and Petrie (in the 1920s) and the Bledlow Cross according to Petrie.

       Fig. 86 The surroundings of the Whiteleaf Cross.

       Fig. 87 The three important sections through the Whiteleaf Cross.

       Fig. 88 The surroundings of the Bledlow Cross (Wainhill, Buckinghamshire).

       Fig. 89 Three sections through the Bledlow Cross.