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Samhain/Imbolc Sunrise alignment from Stonehenge
by Simon at 23:10 01/11/11 (Blogs::Simon)
That's interesting - it looks like the sunrise alignment on the Samhain (7th Nov) and Imbolc (4th Feb) cross-quarter days goes right over the site of Coneybury Henge and the round barrow cluster 500m WNW of it.

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Samhain-Imbolc Sunrise azimuth

I smell a photo op :-)

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simon

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Samhain/Imbolc Sunrise alignment from Stonehenge Simon - 23:10 01/11/11
Re: Samhain/Imbolc Sunrise alignment from Stonehenge Simon - 17:34 06/11/11
For once, the weather gods have smiled on me, and I was able to get some images of sunrise on 6th November (Samhain 2011).

Sunrise indeed was directly over the barrow clump in Full Moon Copse and Coneybury Henge.

Here are some photos.

Samhain sunrise 6th November 2011

Samhain sunrise 6th November 2011

Samhain sunrise 6th November 2011

Samhain sunrise 6th November 2011

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simon
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Re: Samhain/Imbolc Sunrise alignment from Stonehenge Bruce Ure - 01:30 07/11/11
Very very lovely.

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