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F IG . 5.3 Solar, lunar and galactic alignments at Stonehenge. Drawing by Nick
Portwin, from originals by Alan C. Evans (27 Dec 1975) and author (1977)
revealed that the radiocarbon dating scale had been revised, and
Stonehenge 1 had been redated to 2700 b.c. or earlier [ 5A ]. Rerun-
ning the calculations proved Alan's intuitive guesses to be correct
(Fig. 5.3 ) . I confirmed them optically in the planetaria at Jewel and
Esk College, Glasgow Nautical College, Armagh Planetarium and
more recently Glasgow Science Centre [ 5B ] ; nowadays, they can be
verified by any good astronomy program on a PC or laptop.
It might seem they could only be coincidence, because the
position of the galactic center can only be determined using a radio
telescope. The entire galactic coordinate system was reset by the