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It has been a bit quiet here so I thought I would mention a discovery from today which could be critiqued .
The Newhall Bridge stones are a pair of stones near Kenmore in Perthshire . They are 20 metres apart and are aligned from centre of one to centre of the other at  304 .5  degrees . Different readers may come up with a slightly different figures depending on where you might consider the centre to be but this would only vary by a couple of degrees . A gps reading of each stone was also recorded which resulted in an  an alignment of 307 degrees .As can be seen in the (pretty poor , it was dull morning ) pic the stones are aligned to a prominent lump on the nearby Drummond Hill , this alignment is 304 degrees .When everything is taken into consideration,  altitude of the sites etc. the resulting decliantion is 24.2 degrees which means that the sun would set over the the lump as seen from the aligned stones every summer solstice . The question was the the intention of builders ? As far as   I know this has never been noted for this site . The lump has a some rock art nearby and was the site of an Iron Age hill "fort " but is immaterial and has nothing to with the astronomy .

            George

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