jmm@bonnie.UUCP (Joe Mcghee) (07/13/84)
On August 1, 1982 I visited a site which has been called Mystery Hill but is now called America's Stonehenge. It was given this name because it was discovered that this ancient stone age site has many of the alignments of the original Stonehenge: midsummer sunrise midsummer sunset midwinter sunrise midwinter sunset equinox sunrise equinox sunset But in addition it has some additional alignments apparently not found at Stonehenge: a true south wall for determining exact noon February 1 sunrise February 1 sunset May 1 sunrise May 1 sunset August 1 sunrise August 1 sunset November 1 sunrise November 1 sunset The last eight alignments divide the year into quarters. This site is located in North Salem, New Hampshire and is considered to have been built about 1750 B.C. to 1500 B.C. There are also inscribed stones associated with the site. One of these is inscribed with the name of Bel in Ogham. While the stones currently at this site are for the most part smaller than those at Stonehenge, the alignments are there. Also, about a hundred years ago an outrage was inflicted on this site when it was used as a stone quarry. So, some evidence has undoubtedly been destroyed forever. As mentioned in previous articles there are a large number of megalithic structures in America and most, if not all, have some astronomical alignment. One of these is described in "The Search for Lost America" (p. 59) by Salvatore Michael Trento as follows: "In 1975 Dr. Barry Fell visited the slab-roofed chambers of central Vermont and added his own analysis as to the identity of the builders. At a site where Dix had plotted out the winter solstice, Fell looked at some nearby markings on a rock outcropping and exclaimed, 'That's Celtic Ogham!' Within a few minutes the Harvard professor made a preliminary, but nonetheless startling, translation: 'winter observation pillar'. This was quite surprising, for Dix had told no one about his exciting calculations. In fact, he was still preparing the results of his study for a scientific paper. On a nearby standing stone which Dix believed marked out the equinox sunset, Dr. Fell translated some etchings cut across the stone as 'the eye of Bel'. This was shocking for Bel was the Celtic sun god." Page 18 of Fred Hoyle's "On Stonehenge" shows a ground plan for an ancient site simmilar to Stonehenge in its concentric circles and central horseshoe at Sarmizegetusa, Rumania. All three of these sites (Stonehenge, North Salem, Sarmizegetusa) have, at least, one more thing in common. In ancient times all of these sites were inhabited by Celts! J. M. McGhee bonnie!jmm