[QUOTE=chowder]
Well y’know that never occurred to me, can’t think why.
Oh wait! perhaps it was 'cos I was in awe of the place.
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You never get the same answer twice. If you count them clockwise, you get one answer, and anticlockwise, another.
[QUOTE=Yellow_Rights]
Why is it so important to line up with the summer/winter solstice? Seems like a lot of effort when they could just draw a line in the ground.
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As I said above , the winter solstice would have been more important then the summer one. It’s a point in the year showing that the days will soon get longer and warmer, and it will soon be time to plant your crops. Without this solstice “marker” you would have no idea in what phase of the sun cycle you are. Don’t forget they probably didn’t have any calenders. The summer and winter solstices are fixed, dependable points in the year.
[QUOTE=Struan]
*I’d recommend Orkney anyway, it’s a stunning place - and oddly the most astonishing thing on the Islands is about 60 years old…
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And what would that be?
[QUOTE=Colophon]
And what would that be?
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If you look above , I think he was referring to the Italian chapel.
I thought maybe Struan lived there and was referring to himself! 
And there’s the Tarxien Temple in Malta
http://www.maltavista.net/en/list/photo/778.html
[QUOTE=Meurglys]
I thought maybe Struan lived there and was referring to himself! 
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Creaks, shakes fists at younger members!
\get off my World Heritage Site