Layout and Location - The Stones and the Stars: Building Scotland's Newest Megalith - page 157

F IG . 5.16 Aerial view of Stonehenge, showing the ditch and bank extended
past the Heelstone (Photo by Chris Stanley)
That's a subjective interpretation with a vengeance. Almost
certainly it could never be proved, but that doesn't matter. It can't
very easily be disproved, either, and it gave me the answer to the
design question. Since we weren't planning to conduct any cer-
emonies, I could make a stone the center of the action on the
sight-line; and since people would be able to see over it, on the
scale I intended, I could make it a central stone. The view points
could be on the perimeter, and people walking around the outside
of the circle with the leaflets would be able to look over it from all
angles without bumping into one another. What we would have,
in effect, would be the ground plan of the view stations around Le
Grand Menhir Brisé (Fig. 4.17b ) - scaled down to 40 ft across and
corrected for the latitude and date of modern Glasgow.
I showed the plan to Archie Roy, who approved it. Among the
experts I had sounded out on the design question was E.C. Krupp,
at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, at Prof. Thom's sug-
gestion (see below). At the point when my conclusions had been
reached, I was most heartened to receive a letter from him that
included the comment, “Of course, you could turn the whole thing