Comments on: The Stones of Time… by Martin Brennan http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2017/02/07/the-stones-of-time-by-martin-brennan/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sat, 02 May 2026 21:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2017/02/07/the-stones-of-time-by-martin-brennan/comment-page-1/#comment-47040 CherryPie Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:33:16 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=18140#comment-47040 I read this one last year justs after the book I reviewed about Stonehenge. I have a bit of a backlog in books that I intended to review. I have one other book on the subject that I intend to review next. I read this one last year justs after the book I reviewed about Stonehenge. I have a bit of a backlog in books that I intended to review.

I have one other book on the subject that I intend to review next.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2017/02/07/the-stones-of-time-by-martin-brennan/comment-page-1/#comment-47039 CherryPie Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:29:57 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=18140#comment-47039 It would be a truly bad idea to fund a mainstream archaeologist/historian to explore such sights. They are set in their ways and ideas and have a reputation to keep which does not allow for alternative thinking. In the case of the stone structures in this book the mainstream archaeologists were causing a problem, blocking up the original site lines so that they cannot be seen or explored... The author of the book and his colleagues were observing and measuring how solstice events lined up perfectly with the stone structures in Ireland. Also how the stone carvings are measures in a yearly cycle. Other authors have been able to show similar observations at Stonehenge and how it connects with its wider landscape. All fascinating reading when backed up with measurements, photographs and diagrams ;-) A more recent construction was built to display the sun through a slit on remembrance day. http://www.thenma.org.uk/whats-here/armed-forces-memorial/ At 11 am on 11 November each year the sun shines through two slits in the outer and inner walls of the memorial, casting a shaft of light across a wreath in the centre. It would be a truly bad idea to fund a mainstream archaeologist/historian to explore such sights. They are set in their ways and ideas and have a reputation to keep which does not allow for alternative thinking. In the case of the stone structures in this book the mainstream archaeologists were causing a problem, blocking up the original site lines so that they cannot be seen or explored…

The author of the book and his colleagues were observing and measuring how solstice events lined up perfectly with the stone structures in Ireland. Also how the stone carvings are measures in a yearly cycle.

Other authors have been able to show similar observations at Stonehenge and how it connects with its wider landscape.

All fascinating reading when backed up with measurements, photographs and diagrams ;-)

A more recent construction was built to display the sun through a slit on remembrance day.

http://www.thenma.org.uk/whats-here/armed-forces-memorial/

At 11 am on 11 November each year the sun shines through two slits in the outer and inner walls of the memorial, casting a shaft of light across a wreath in the centre.

]]> By: lisl http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2017/02/07/the-stones-of-time-by-martin-brennan/comment-page-1/#comment-47038 lisl Wed, 08 Feb 2017 06:51:31 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=18140#comment-47038 I imagine you are reading this at the moment, Cherie? I imagine you are reading this at the moment, Cherie?

]]> By: Amfortas http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2017/02/07/the-stones-of-time-by-martin-brennan/comment-page-1/#comment-47037 Amfortas Wed, 08 Feb 2017 01:40:34 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=18140#comment-47037 Fascinating. I can see enough 'work' there to keep an Historian/archeologist busy for an entire taxpayer-funded career, such that in 30 years we might have some idea about what they were for, at a cost of a mere couple of million pounds. Still, it keeps them off street corners and forces them into excercise, walking into and around remote places where they will find little mischief to get up to. I am always struck by these academic types descriptions of the metal prowess of the folk in those days. They were 'sophisticated' it seems. Some of their building techniques were 'so advanced' that we cannot figure out how they did it and could not do it today. Nice, though, to hear of them doing it in Ireland rather than the Gobi Desert where the folk are getting just a little terse ! :) Fascinating. I can see enough ‘work’ there to keep an Historian/archeologist busy for an entire taxpayer-funded career, such that in 30 years we might have some idea about what they were for, at a cost of a mere couple of million pounds. Still, it keeps them off street corners and forces them into excercise, walking into and around remote places where they will find little mischief to get up to. I am always struck by these academic types descriptions of the metal prowess of the folk in those days. They were ’sophisticated’ it seems. Some of their building techniques were ’so advanced’ that we cannot figure out how they did it and could not do it today. Nice, though, to hear of them doing it in Ireland rather than the Gobi Desert where the folk are getting just a little terse ! :)

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