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1723/B Rev. Wm. Stukeley sketch of Stanton Drew 1740/B Stukeley notes Stonehenge points to mid-summer sunrise 1740/B John Wood, mystical architect of Bath, Description of Stanton Drew and Stonehenge 1747/B John Wood, Choir Gaure Vulgarly Called Stonehenge with accurate plans 1770/B Dr. John Smith notes point to mid-summer sunrise in Choir Gawr, the Grand Orrery of the Druids 1778/B Wm. Chapple identifies an astronomical observatory in A Very Remarkable Cromlech 1796/B Wansey identifies an ideal horizon observatory at 3 miles in Stonehenge 1829/B Godfrey Higgins dates Stonehenge at 4000 BC in The Celtic Druids 1846/B Rev. E. Duke identifies an orrery in Druidical Temples of Wiltshire 1864/E Charles Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid 1867/B Max Müller: Holed stones in Cornwall sight fall equinox 1880/B Sir. Wm. M. Flinders Petrie, Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories 1881/E Flinders Petrie begins to dig and survey Egypt 1883/E Richard Proctor: Cheops' pyramid is an observatory 1885 Prof. Nissen, astron. allignment of temples 1890/G Sir Norman Lockyer in Greece in March, allignments of temples 1890/E Sir Norman Lockyer in Egypt in November, allignments of temples dates Karnak (mid-summer sunset) at 3700 BC 1892/G F. C. Penrose in Greece, paper on temple allignments in Greece, heliacal risings 1893/B Magnus Spence: aston. allignments in Stenness, Scotland 1894 Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy (and, the dawn of modern astro-archeology) 1900/B Moses Cotsworth: Silbury Hill is a gnomon 1900/E Moses Cotsworth: Cheops' pyramid is a gnomon 1901/B Lockyer and Penrose date Stonehenge at 1820 +- 200 BC 1922/B Alfred Watkins, Early British Trackways 1963/B Gerald Hawkins, solar and lunar lines at Stonehenge 1965/B Gerald Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded 1967/B Alexander Thom, Megalithic Sites in Britain (and, the dawn of modern geometro-archeology)