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"a 4,500 year-old limestone plaque at the Poulton excavation, bearing a mysterious crisscross pattern. [...] The markings were made with a flint tool and flint from Salisbury Plain has previously been found on site. [...] was connected with ritual or ceremonial activities, although its exact purpose is unknown." [from the Chester Chronicle]
Lomas & Knight are of the opinion that certain lozenge shaped markings found on objects of this age may be some kind of latitudinal map, representing the shape of shadows cast by a vertical stick at sunrise & sunset during the two solstices:
"The diagonal cross of the year symbol has four legs which represent the direction of a solstice sunrise or sunset, but the shadows created by the marker poles on an Uriel machine at a solstice will also produce a diamond shape that will vary in its angles according to latitude.
We knew from observations that these lozenges vary according to the latitude at which these readings were taken. At 55 deg north, a regular diamond with four 90 degree angles is produced. At places south of this geometrically primary latitude produce increasingly wider diamonds, and those further north become progressively taller. It therefore occurred to us that these latitude-specific shapes of the lozenges could be used to identify a location in the way that a post code or a zip code does today. If this interpretation is correct, the different lozenges would have described some major megalithic sites." [From Uriel's Machine page 335]
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