Sacred Number

The gavrinis Chamber showing extreme Sun and Moon rays

Howard Crowhurst presents a simple yet compelling scheme that highlights the simplicity achieved by the builders of the early Carnac monuments and the subtlety that has, so far, been overlooked. Their work appears to have preceded the building of any part of Stonehenge. This is the current lead story at www.astro-archaeology.org where the pdf can be read.

This sort of chambered "tomb" was a common precursor to the last phase of the megalithic associated with the stone circles. It shows a complete mastery, both technical and symbolic, of the essence of a site's astro-archaeological characteristics through, usually, alignment of the sun and moon. The alignments found over kilometers that could achieve highly accurate results appear to have been ritualized into such smaller but still highly accurate buildings.

Gavrinis was dismantled for excavation and since reconstructed, its details have somewhat changed including the fact that before, this structure was waterproof despite being a dry stone construction. Now water is entering it. It is a sad fact that excavation of metrological monuments is likely to destroy the dimension that archasologists remain largely oblivious to, namely the significance of metrology as an exact science and hence a precious artifact contained within megalithic monuments.