The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

230 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS arrow-head-like signs, were used like the back-sight of a rifle

(see Fig. 28) aimed at the point of the Sunrise, so as to obtain an exact sight-line in ‘‘ Shooting the Sun”’ as with

a sextant. SHE Sunrise w WZ Suntise.

L “Friar’s Heel.” Front sight.

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i Stone.”

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= Front sight pillar the Sigh ill + ‘ of Circle. = ee pillar of i (No. 6?). ‘

7 nel iS Centre of Circle.

a Back sight mark

on Observation =

Back sight mark

YR Stone. on Observation Stone,

Fic. 28.—Mode of Sighting Sunrise Fic. 29.— Sighting Sunrise by by Observation Stone in . Observation Stone in Keswick Circle. Stonehenge Circle.

The eye of the observer, stationed at this Table-Stone in the S.W. of the Circle, looked along the middle line of the “ diamond ” (the apex and angular sides of which, supplemented by the arrow-head angles, correspond to the angular notch on the back-sight of a rifle) and gained thereby a sight-line which passed through the centre of the Circle, and beyond this passed in the axis of the circle out to the horizon along the edge of the corresponding standing pillarstone on the N.E. (presumably stone No. 6 on plan, which acted like the front-sight of a rifle), When the Sunrise point coincided exactly with this sight-line, it yielded the required date in the Solar calendar of the Phcenician erectors of this Stone Circle observatory.

This observation stone and its marking may now help to settle the existing confusion of opinion as to the position of the ‘centre’ of this particular Circle. For this Keswick