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Fig. 4 A star map for the year 3000 BC with the names of the brightest stars then visible from Wessex. (#ulink_36bd5951-5913-5457-8619-4af6c9d13f52)
Fig. 5 Earth-covered long barrows near Stonehenge. (#ulink_ceb62ba1-a4e4-549f-9b6e-2772e2047530)
Fig. 6 Four different examples of taper in long barrows. (#ulink_ce8ba3ff-daca-5514-87d4-08f967d7474b)
Fig. 7 A general plan of the Fussell’s Lodge long barrow, drawn by P. J. Ashbee. (#ulink_50bc9dcf-020d-5018-bb7b-e12c4369535c)
Fig. 8 Details of the preceding figure.
Fig. 9 The Fussell’s Lodge long barrow, viewed from the north.
Fig. 10 A general plan of the long barrow at Wayland’s Smithy (after R. J. C. Atkinson).
Fig. 11 The central area of Wayland’s Smithy, phase I.
Fig. 12 Alternative ways of viewing at right angles.
Fig. 13 The long barrow, Wayland’s Smithy II.
Fig. 14 Lines of sight from the eastern ditch over the crossing in the burial chamber at Wayland’s Smithy.
Fig. 15 Three potential solutions for the viewing of stars across the Wayland’s Smithy long mound.
Fig. 16 The stone mortuary chamber of Wayland’s Smithy II.
Fig. 17 The central area of the next figure.
Fig. 18 A general view of the planning of the mortuary house and its ditches at Wayland’s Smithy.
Fig. 19 A detail of the previous figure, showing the shape of the shallow pitched roof of the earliest mortuary house at Wayland’s Smithy.
Fig. 20 Two possible forms of roof for the Fussell’s Lodge mortuary house.
Fig. 21 Potential right angles in the forms of the barrows at Fussell’s Lodge and Wayland’s Smithy.
Fig. 22 A cross-section of the ditches at Fussell’s Lodge.
Fig. 23 Plan of the Horslip long barrow.
Fig. 24 Sections of the ditches at the Horslip long barrow.
Fig. 25 Sections of the West Kennet long barrow (as drawn by Stuart Piggott).
Fig. 26 Outline plan of the West Kennet long barrow and ditches.
Fig. 27 The five chambers at the eastern end of the West Kennet barrow, with surviving blocking stones in position.
Fig. 28 The West Kennet chambers with blocking stones removed.
Fig. 29 Construction lines abstracted from the previous figure, defined by the faces of stones.
Fig. 30 Suggested profile of the original West Kennet long barrow, looking across it from the south.
Fig. 31 Section of the northern ditch of the West Kennet Long Barrow.
Fig. 32 Years at which the two stars Sirius and Arcturus could have been seen at right angles to the various sections of the West Kennet barrow, plotted against altitude.
Fig. 33 A supplement to Fig. 32, with the graphs for Rigel and Vega.
Fig. 34 The internal structure of Silbury Hill.
Fig. 35 The overall structure of the Beckhampton Road long barrow, as indicated by the ditches, the approximate edges of the mound, and selected rows of stake holes.
Fig. 36 The overall plan of the South Street barrow.
Fig. 37 The dating of the South Street barrow, with graphs for Sirius, Vega, Regulus and Bellatrix.
Fig. 38 Important sections of the ditches at barrows 1 and 2 at Giants’ Hills, Skendleby.
Fig. 39 Outline of the Skendleby 1 long barrow.
Fig. 40 Outline of the Skendleby 2 long barrow.
Fig. 41 Plan of the area around the façade of the Skendleby 2 long barrow.
Fig. 42 The front ditch and (original) rear ditch of the long barrow Skendleby 2A.
Fig. 43 Outlines of the ditches surrounding the long barrow at Barrows Hills, Radley.
Fig. 44 Potential geometrical construction lines for the entire original system of ditch and mound at Radley.
Fig. 45 The probable overall shape of the Radley mound, in idealized form.
Fig. 46 The mound area and inner ditches of the Radley long barrow, in the form of a parallelogram.
Fig. 47 The Grendon square barrow with potential lines of sight and possible construction lines.
Fig. 48 The two Grendon ring ditches surrounding the earlier square barrow.
Fig. 49 General plan of the dry-stone walls of the Hazleton North cairn (after Alan Saville).
Fig. 50 A detail of Fig. 52.
Fig. 51 The stake holes and post holes under the Hazleton North cairn.
Fig. 52 The proposed cell structure of the Hazleton North mound, with construction lines.
Fig. 53 The probable overall shape of Hazleton North.
Fig. 54 The rings of ditches and mounds at Windmill Hill, near Avebury.
Fig. 55 The directions at right angles to straight sections of the ditches at Windmill Hill.
Fig. 56 The Dorset Cursus and its surroundings.
Fig. 57 Long barrows in the vicinity of the Dorset Cursus.
Fig. 58 The changing levels along the Dorset Cursus.
Fig. 59 The principal alignments of locations at the northern end of the Dorset Cursus.
Fig. 60 The principal astronomical alignments at the Dorset Cursus.
Fig. 61 The path of the setting Sun as seen from the centre of the Wyke Down terminal, looking over the long barrow on the ridge of Gussage Hill.
Fig. 62 An unfinished cursus on Bokerley Down?
Fig. 63 The Lesser Cursus to the north of Stonehenge.
Fig. 64 The geometrical plan of the Lesser Cursus.
Fig. 65 Alignments of the positions of long barrows in the Stonehenge region.
Fig. 66 The distribution of long barrows in Wiltshire.
Fig. 67 The long barrows to the east and west of the Stonehenge region.
Fig. 68 Heights in metres (above the Ordnance Datum) of long barrows and other key points in the Stonehenge region of Fig. 65.
Fig. 69 Alignments of long barrows in the Avebury region.
Fig. 70 Alignments of long barrows in the region of Cranborne Chase.
Fig. 71 The azimuths of lines connecting three or more long-barrows in the Stonehenge and Avebury regions.
Fig. 72 The azimuths of lines connecting three or more long barrows in the Cranborne Chase region.
Fig. 73 The chalk levels in a section of the southern bank, 225 m from the western end of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus.
Fig. 74 The Greater Cursus at Stonehenge.
Fig. 75 One potential method of viewing, using a forked staff, to achieve a standard eye level.
Fig. 76 The parallelogram on Coombe Bissett Down.
Fig. 77 The probable plan of the parallelogram within the ‘field’ on Coombe Bissett Down.
Fig. 78 The White Horse, after Flinders Petrie.
Fig. 79 The profile of White Horse Hill.
Fig. 80 The setting of the White Horse in relation to other monuments at Uffington.
Fig. 81 The profile of the ridge with the White Horse, as it might have been seen from the lower part of the gallery AB in the late fourth millennium BC.
Fig. 82 The ‘Long Man’ at Wilmington, East Sussex, after Flinders Petrie, together with the foreshortened version as seen from a point near the modern road.
Fig. 83 The surroundings of the Long Man.
Fig. 84 The present view of the Long Man from the gate to the road, with the chief stars of Orion for 3480 BC.
Fig. 85 The Whiteleaf cross according to Wise (1742) and Petrie (in the 1920s) and the Bledlow Cross according to Petrie.
Fig. 86 The surroundings of the Whiteleaf Cross.
Fig. 87 The three important sections through the Whiteleaf Cross.
Fig. 88 The surroundings of the Bledlow Cross (Wainhill, Buckinghamshire).
Fig. 89 Three sections through the Bledlow Cross.
Fig. 90 The outline of the Cerne Giant, following Flinders Petrie.
Fig. 91 A typical early medieval manuscript illustration of the classical figure representing the constellation of Hercules.
Fig. 92 A short section of the ecliptic, the annual path of the Sun through the stars.
Fig. 93 Extreme directions of the rising and setting of the upper limb of the Sun and Moon, for altitude zero at four specimen latitudes.
Fig. 94 The area around the Greater Stonehenge Cursus (a repeat of an earlier figure).
Fig. 95 The profile of the ground along the axis of the first section of the Stonehenge Avenue.
Fig. 96 Stones in the Corringdon Ball group on Dartmoor, after W. C. Lukis (1879).
Fig. 97 The terminal stones for rows in the Corringdon Ball group.
Fig. 98 The Avebury circles and avenues, and their surroundings.
Fig. 99 The northern sections of the Kennet Avenue.
Fig. 100 Stones of the Kennet Avenue (1961) in the neighbourhood of West Kennet village, after Isobel Smith.
Fig. 101 Parts of the Kennet Avenue known chiefly through resistivity surveys of the ground to the south of stones 37 (after P. J. Ucko and others).
Fig. 102 The pattern of some of the potential lines of sight to lunar phenomena, seen across the Kennet Avenue.
Fig. 103 The Kennett Avenue. An idealization of the rectangular cells formed around lunar lines and lines north–south, or lunar lines and lines east–west.
