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The Bush Barrow gold lozenge: is it a solar and lunar calendar for Stonehenge?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. S. Thom ,
J. M. D. Ker  and
T. R. Burrowst
A. S. Thom
Affiliation:
The Hill, Dunlop, Kilmarnoc:k KA3 4DH
J. M. D. Ker
Affiliation:
The Hill, Dunlop, Kilmarnoc:k KA3 4DH
T. R. Burrowst
Affiliation:
The Hill, Dunlop, Kilmarnoc:k KA3 4DH
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Papers in ANTIQUITY earlier this year (Kinnes et al. 1988; Shell 6. Robinson 1988) have studied evidence for the original profile-shape of the decorated gold lozenge, from Bush Barrow, in the barrow-field immediately to the south of Stonehenge. They have not addressed the pattern of the markings inscribed on the lozenge, which are here identified with the significant directions of solar and lunar events, the lozenge acting as a long-term record for prehistoric astronomers.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 492 - 502
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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