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Megalithic sites in Britain and Europe, and how they relate to what the observer would see; in short, an astronomer’s reasons for accepting the argument that the ancient sites were observatories.
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Lunan, D. (2013). Archaeoastronomy in the British Isles. In: The Stones and the Stars. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5354-3_4
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