SCOTLAND AND IRELAND 



ioo feet wide due south of the circle and connected 

 with it by a paved way. Sir Norman Lockyer 

 thinks that the position of the doorway is connected 

 with observation of the sun's rising in May. 

 Moreover, the tallest stone of the circle, 9 feet 

 high, is 30 east of north from the centre, a direc- 

 tion which according to him points to the rising 

 of Capella in 1950 B.C. and Arcturus in 280 B.C. 



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