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	Aubrey holes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The holes are in an accurate, 271.6m circumference circle, distributed around the edge of the area enclosed by Stonehenge's earth bank, with an average standard deviation in their positioning of 0.4m.
		It was thought that when the Aubrey holes were first dug, the only standing feature at Stonehenge was the Heel Stone which may have had astronomical significance as it marks the midpoint of the moon's journey across the sky during the year.
		Hawkins argued that the Aubrey Holes were used to keep track of this long time period and could accurately predict the reoccurrence of a lunar eclipse on the same azimuth, that which aligned with the Heel Stone, every 56 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aubrey_holes (2181 words)

	Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey in "Brief Lives" 2
		He seems to be Aubrey, and we see giggle; the relaxed manner, the straggly hair, the old, rheumy eyes, the slightly palsied hand are no longer matters of acting but the dimensions and lineaments of a person.
		Aubrey, in 1648, at the age of 22, while out hunting with some friends near Avebury in Wiltshire, recognized in the earthworks and great stones placed about the landscape in and about the village a great prehistoric temple.
		Aubrey - a scholar, antiquarian and close observer of both the foibles and the courage of his contemporaries - lived through the upheavals of the English Civil War in the 17th century.
	www.cinemind.com /aubrey/indexb.html (839 words)

	William Hawley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hawley's work identified the Aubrey Holes for the first time as well as the Y and Z holes and a jumble of other postholes and stone holes within the centre of the monument.
		Hawley proved, from a thin stratum of stone chip debris he called the Stonehenge Layer, that the earthwork features, the Aubrey Holes and some of the other postholes and burials constituted earlier phases of activity that predated the erection of the megaliths.
		Eventually he settled on three phases, the earthwork enclosure, a large stone circle now vanished that supposedly stood in the Aubrey Holes, and finally a larger megaliths phase involving the extant stones as Stonehenge 3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hawley (411 words)

	Secrets of the Dead . Murder at Stonehenge \| PBS
		Archeologists cannot precisely date all of the stones, ditches, holes, and other features of Stonehenge, but the monument was recently the subject of a large radiocarbon dating program which has led to a new chronology of its construction.
		Holes indicate that timber posts were erected at the southern entrance and at the northeast entrance, where they might have formed a corridor through which the rising sun would shine at mid-summer.
		By this time the timber posts that the Aubrey Holes once held had rotted away, and the Holes were used as a cremation cemetery; the cremated bones from at least 200 bodies, perhaps many more, were in the top of the holes.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_stonehenge (475 words)

	EARTH MYSTERIES: John Aubrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was Aubrey who, in 1648, at the age of 22, while out hunting with some friends near Avebury in Wiltshire, recognized in the earthworks and great stones placed about the landscape in and about the village a great prehistoric temple.
		In the following century, William Stukeley was to develop the claim that Avebury was as an ancient cult centre of the Druids.
		These holes are now recognized as belonging to the first phase of the monument's construction.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /earthmysteries/EMAubry.html (330 words)

	John Aubrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Aubrey was born in Kingston, England in 1626.
		Aubrey's most important contribution to the worlds of anthropology and antiquities was his Monumenta Britannica.
		These holes are thought to be part of the first phase of the monument’s construction.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/aubrey_john.html (187 words)

	Stonehenge Eclipse Calculator
		The holes, known as the Aubrey holes, were discovered during an exploration of the site in the mid 1600's.
		And analysis of the dirt at the base of the holes indicates that they did not serve as post holes or holes for stones (the dirt showed no evidence of compacting as typically found at the bottom of an ancient post hole).
		The Moon and Sun markers are moved in the plus direction (hole 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and so on) while the nodes are moved in the minus direction (hole 3 to 2, 2 to 1, 1 to 56, and so on).
	www.eclipse-chasers.com /henge1.html (1951 words)

	Earth Mysteries: Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
		Inside the bank were dug 56 holes -- discovered by John Aubrey, and known as the "Aubrey Holes" -- placed at precisely regular intervals around a concentric circle of about 285 feet in diameter.
		Besides the "Aubrey Holes", of crucial importance are the four "Station Stones" marked at positions 91, 92, 93, and 94, to form a rectangle that stands in a precise relationship with the centre of the monument and with the "Heel Stone".
		By means of the markers in the "Aubrey Holes" and keeping track of the directions of the sun and the moon, the astronomer at Stonehenge could calculate nodal points ahead of time and thus predict both lunar and solar eclipses.
	www.britannia.com /wonder/thehenge.html (952 words)

	The Doors of Precession: Lunar Deities...
		The Aubrey Holes also act as a lunisolar calendar, another symbol of the circle or wheel of life where the moon and the sun are brought into the same circle and their cycles are charted in corresponding patterns.
		By moving marker stones around the 56 Aubrey Holes, one move for each year, the position of the moon in the nineteen year cycle is easily kept track of thereby allowing the ancients to know the most likely time of the year when lunar eclipses occur.
		Almost contemporary with the Aubrey Holes, a ditch and bank with a wide gap in the bank facing the northeast were dug at Stonehenge I in the late Neolithic Era.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/t/the_doors_of_precession_lunar_deities.html (6303 words)

	Stonehenge
		Inside the circle are 56 Aubrey holes (named after their 17th century discoverer John Aubrey) which vary from 2.5 - 6 feet in width, and 2 - 4 feet in depth.
		Lt-Col Hawley discovered them in 1923 and called them Y and Z Holes (he considered the Aubrey Holes to be the X holes).
		It is possible that these holes were dug to take yet another setting of stones but for whatever reason this phase was never carried out.
	www.geocities.com /misterpisces86/stonehenge.htm (2864 words)

	WowEssays.com - A Study Of Stonehenge
		It was named by John Aubrey for the heel shaped dent, which relates to the legend that the Devil threw the stone at the Friar's heel, which dented the stone.
		The Aubrey Holes was named after John Aubrey, circle around the Y and Z holes.
		The Y holes lie 11 meters outside the Sarsen Circle, and the Z holes lie 3.7 meters outside the Sarsen circle.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ad1/bsw236.shtml (1483 words)

	Stonehenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Holes that no longer or never contained stones are shown as open circles and stones visible today are shown coloured.
		At least twenty-five of the Aubrey Holes are known to have contained later, intrusive, cremation burials dating to the two centuries after the monument's inception.
		Aubrey Burl contends that the bluestones were not transported by human agency at all and were instead brought by glaciers at least part of the way from Wales during the Pleistocene.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Stonehenge.htm (4967 words)

	Stonehenge - Stonehenge Information
		Lines connecting the stones opposite each other will intersect at the very center of the monument at an angle of 45 degrees and are symmetrical with respect to the main axis.
		The Aubrey Holes, named for John Aubrey, circle around the "Y" and "Z" holes.
		The Y holes lie 11 meters (36.1 ft) outside the Sarsen Circle, and the Z holes lie 3.7 meters (12.1 ft) outside the Sarsen circle.
	www.stonehenge.20m.com /home/info.htm (269 words)

	More Mysteries Discovered at Stonehenge--Ummah.comGeneral
		Two circles of holes known as the Y and Z Holes were then dug for the erection of stones; however these holes were never filled.
		He found that the 56 Aubrey Holes are arranged at precisely regular intervals around a circle that is 86.9 meters (285 feet) in diameter.
		Each one of the Aubrey Holes serves as a fixed reference point along the circle, and by moving a marker between the holes, different calculation and predictions can be made.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=21351 (1382 words)

	The 56 Aubrey Holes
		First you will notice that there are 56 Aubrey holes, which represented an important figure being 2 times 28, and 28 being the number of days the moon takes to complete it’s cycle relative to the Sun (or circumpolar stars).
		If we try to simulate this using the aubrey holes we could by placing a marker on hole 35 to represent the Sun and also another marker on hole 35 to represent the moon.
		When the post on the ‘Z’ holes is in position 15 or the post on the ‘Y’ holes is in position 16 then we have a full moon and if the sun and moon posts on the Aubrey circle are directly opposite each other then we have an excellent 'Solunar' period.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /charleswebster/56_aubrey_holes.htm (614 words)

	New Hampshire Times - January 19, 1977
		Two holes, yellow and white, were considered as a unit or pair, representing the daytime and nighttime of a given day in the lunar- menstrual cycle or "common law" month of 28 days.
		If the circle of 56 Aubrey holes represents what it appears to represent with respect to the lunar-menstrual month of 28 days and 28 nights, then this permutated notation is the only notation the circle of holes was meant to hold.
		For him, the 56 Aubrey holes represent the logical simplicity of twice 28, a day and night system used by the people of Upper Paleolithic culture to honor the intimate correlations they perceived between the cycles of human- kind and the cycles of nature.
	www.flybynews.com /bartjordan/nh-times-1977-07-06.html (2360 words)

	DarkGovernment - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus
		Just inside the earth bank is a circle of the 56 Aubrey holes that held wooden posts.Phase II After 2900 BCE and for approximately the next 500 years (until 2400 BCE), post holes indicate timber settings in the centre of the monument and at the north-eastern entrance.
		The Aubrey Holes no longer held posts but were partially filled.
		The numerous post holes indicate timber structures but no clear patterns or configurations are discernible that would suggest their shape, form, or function.
	www.darkgovernment.com /board3/viewthread.php?tid=982 (1150 words)

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		Five metres inside the inner bank is a ring of fifty-six chalk cut pits, now known as the Aubrey holes, after John Aubrey the seventeenth century antiquarian.
		Twenty-five cremation burials and animal bones were placed into the Aubrey holes and thirty more into the side of the ditch.
		Two rings of holes 36ft and 12ft outside the sarsen circle are dug between the outer circle of Sarsens and the ditch.
	members.lycos.co.uk /oldalbion/salisbury/stonehenge.html (1475 words)

	Other Wonders
		The holes are very similar to those found in the Temple of the Stars in Qosqo's Qorikancha that according to Garcilaso kept ornaments of precious metals and stones; possibly also over here those holes had the same duty.
		Those holes were filled up with wooden wedges that were then soaked; thus, using expansion or swelling of soaked wood they could split the rocks.
		It is argued that over here existed two types of punishment and that the niches with small holes on their jambs that are found over the Condor's left wing served for tying the hands of those punished (those niches were originally covered with a roof).
	www.the7worldwonders.com /otherwonders.htm (10765 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		His calculations are based on the 56 pits or "Aubrey Holes" first discovered in the 17th century by British antiquary John Aubrey.
		Hoyle believed it was possible to determine eclipses by moving three markers, or stones, around the Aubrey holes in such a way that when all three arrived at the same hole, an eclipse of the Sun or Moon was about to occur.
		He believes that the first phase of building, where it was simply a ditch and bank with 56 pits (the Aubrey holes) carved out on the inner side of the henge, is the only section of Stonehenge that holds astronomical value.
	exn.ca /mysticplaces/Enigma.cfm (1658 words)

	Tiverton Astronomy Society - Stonehenge
		He discovered that lunar eclipses could be predicted through a system of moving stones around the circle of Aubrey Holes.
		At its extreme declination, in that year the winter solstice Moon rose over the alignment to hole D from the centre of the monument, along the alignment from SS94 to SS91, and was framed in the southern intermediate trilithon.
		The 3 stones were moved around the Aubrey Hole ring at their real rates relative to each other.
	www.tivas.org.uk /stonehenge/stone_ast.html (2054 words)

	Stonehenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Inside of the earth bank is a circle of 56 Aubrey holes that probably held some type of wooden posts.
		During this phase, the posts that had occupied the Aubrey Holes were removed and the holes were at least partially filled (some with cremation deposits).
		New post holes indicating timber settings were added in the center of the structure and also near the north-east entrance.
	home.wlu.edu /~brooksm/ghc/stonehenge.htm (927 words)

	Stonehenge: the megalithic ruin
		After 2900 BCE and for approximately the next 500 years (until 2400 BCE), post holes indicate timber settings in the centre of the monument and at the north-eastern entrance.
		The Aubrey Holes no longer held posts but were partially filled, some with cremation deposits added to the fill.
		In the final sub-phase (3vi), two circles, one inside the other, known as the Y and Z Holes were dug for the placement of stones but were never filled.
	html.rincondelvago.com /stonehenge_the-megalithic-ruin.html (991 words)

	Stonehenge
		Hoyle proposes that the holes were used as a sort of calendar, recording the Sun's and Moon's orbits about the Earth, as if they must have appeared to prehistoric man. For the calendar to work, it must have a starting point.
		A marker on the Aubrey holes would be set in its first position on this day.
		When the point is determined, marker N would be set 14 holes around in a clockwise direction from the first hole in the yearly cycle, i.e.
	www.the-timeless-dimension.com /sh.htm (1824 words)

	Jumps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Just inside the bank and concentric with it was dug a circle of 56 equally spaced holes-called the Aubrey holes for their 17th century discoverer John Aubrey.
		The holes were filled with chalk rubble and, in some instances, with cremated human bones.
		Because of the absence of holes in the western part of the double circle, it would appear that Stonehenge II was never completed.
	users.crocker.com /~darien/Dlong_text_with_jumps.html (1387 words)

	Cafe Irreal #12: The Day that Aubrey Split by Peter Tunstall
		Aubrey Holes says nothing, but I suspect she is thinking the same.
		Joe and Aubrey Holes are looking to me. We camp a few minutes by an old shop, in a polluted wasteland very much like the lovely Vale of Burne.
		Aubrey Holes is hopping manfully across the last field.
	home.sprynet.com /~awhit/tunstall.htm (1709 words)

	Stonehenge - Stone Circle and Henge - Ancient Sites Directory
		The oldest structures on the site of Stonehenge are the bank, ditch and the pits known as the Aubrey Holes which were dug just within the circumference of the ditch.
		It seems that the holes were filled in with chalk rubble soon after they were dug and there is no evidence that either stones or timbers ever stood in these pits.
		There is evidence in the form of a second stone hole that there might have been a pair of Heel stones erected at this time.
	www.henge.org.uk /wiltshire/shenge2.html (763 words)

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