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An Appreciation of the work of Hamish Miller

	Discovery of a working Soli-Lunar Calendar Device at Carnac The Baie du Morbihan area of southern Brittany is the most densely populated area of megalithic activity in Europe. Despite centuries of mass destruction of thousands of standing stones, dolmens and cromlechs (stone rings in France), for quality building stone, enough surviving stones remain to provide mute evidence of a profoundly important cultural movement active in this area since at least 6000 BC. This article describes exciting new research work in progress over the past few years.

	New Stone Circle on Lundy The Lundy Egg - Largest in Britain! “There is nothing, absolutely nothing, as useful as a theodolite on Lundy island” What a place is Lundy! Everybody needs to go there at least once in their lifetime. It has held its secrets well. I was there this time to do further research into a secret from the Stone Age, described in my earlier books and,most recently, in The Measure of Albion, co-authored with John Michell. Lundy holds a secret about our national temple, Stonehenge.

	Appreciation of John Michell With the passing of John Michell, the planet has lost a truly original thinker and the earth mysteries movement loses its father figure. Although Alfred Watkins was the original investigator into this long forgotten aspect of the ancient world, it was John who did more than anyone to dust the subject off, adding mightily and relentlessly over four decades to make it into a coherent discipline.

	Archaeologists in Stonehenge Bluestone Shock It appears you can get away with almost anything in contemporary archaeology. One can for once agree with Jacquetta Hawkes who reckoned that ‘Every generation gets the Stonehenge it deserves’. In this generation one may gain permission to dig the hallowed turf of Stonehenge itself provided you have a theory that is zeitgeisty enough to woo the public. But does it hold water?

	Understanding the Solar Hero Myth To most people, the old myths and legends are quaint reminders of a bygone and superstitious age, and have nothing much to tell us anymore. They are just for the history books or children’s bedtime reading. Yet, for a myth to have survived for thousands of years, one might guess that it holds inherent meanings.

	Stonehenge: What happens when Astronomy and Geometry are Denied Fed up of watching programmes about Stonehenge that take up to an hour to inform the viewer of all the things Stonehenge isn’t? Would you really like to know something about how this stalemate concerning our National Temple has come about? Well, read on.

	Current Research at Avebury Avebury is the largest known stone circle anywhere. The surrounding ditch and bank is 2/3rds mile in circumference. The most accurate survey was undertaken by Professor Alexander Thom in 1978. This article points out some new facts about Avebury which even Professor Thom overlooked.

	Sky and Landscape (Irene Earis) About twenty years ago my husband and I bought a remote cottage in the hills in mid-Wales and used it for family holidays as our children were growing up. Nearby were some huge piles of stones marked as cairns on the OS map and I boldly told my children that when we got home I would get a book from the public library and find out all about them. Thus began a long process of reading books on prehistoric Britain and archaeology and realising that in fact no one really knows how these monuments were used and why they were placed where they are.

	Archaeoastronomy, Bayes Theorem and the Law (Irene Earis) In recent years it has become popular to apply mathematical probability theories to the question of the authenticity of archaeological objects. This has then been applied to the question of whether astronomical alignments of sites might be deliberate or co-incidental. This article argues that this is an unnecessary and unhelpful approach in archaeoastronomy.

	Astro-Archaeology.org Visit this website for more articles Astro-archaeology.org is a Website for exploring the forgotten, ignored, derided and misunderstood aspects of archaeo- astronomy, aka astro-archaeology.It has been set up to enable authors to publish on the web when they would otherwise find that an obstacle. It is currently managed in his free time by Richard Heath.