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Simon (@weborguk@toot.community)
@weborguk.bsky.social
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Astronomer by inclination, physicist by degree. Polymoth and Stonehenge geek. I write a few things now and then about the archaeoastronomy and archaeology of the site.

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weborguk.bsky.social
Happy #DoctorWhoDay!
The iconic TARDIS from Doctor Who standing in the monument field with the equally iconic Stonehenge in the background for Doctor Who Day 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
weborguk.bsky.social
Sooo… when does Grok get given a GPP?
August 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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pittsmike.bsky.social
Cameron split English Heritage from Historic England in 2015, bunged EH a one-off £80m & untied its moorings. It was never going to work
@suegreaney.bsky.social: "the only solution is for English Heritage to be taken back in by the nation, and renationalised,”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...
Inside the civil war in English Heritage which has brought its chief down
Nearly 200 planned redundancies and shuttered historic sites have left staff mutinous and weighing up strike action
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
weborguk.bsky.social
The Larkhill Sun Gap - an article by me working out exactly where it was.

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The Larkhill Sun Gap Revisited
The Summer Solstice Sunrise line as seen from Stonehenge runs across the landscape and over the ridgeline at Larkhill, at the northern end o...
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February 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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www.channel4.com/programmes/m...

Numerous people, including me, wibbling on about a certain pile of rocks. This Sunday, 6pm. #Stonehenge
Mysteries of...
A deep dive into the myths and secrets of iconic sites and phenomena across the planet
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January 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
weborguk.bsky.social
#archaeology folks - I'm looking for some information on Group 1 neolithic stone axes (dating, distribution, origin etc). Pointers welcome to recent books/papers.
January 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
weborguk.bsky.social
Up at @timdaw.bsky.social 's long barrow this morning for the solstice sunrise open day.
Solstice sunrise shining down the passageway of the All Cannings Long Barrow built by Tim Daw.
December 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
weborguk.bsky.social
Something of a milestone - moving ~20GB of stuff relating to the abandoned, flawed, Stonehenge Tunnel proposal off the laptop into archival storage. Hoping to never have to look at it again.
Partial file list of my Stonehenge Tunnel-related documents and accompanying material amassed over the last decade or more, now destined for archival storage.
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Five stones to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. #Stonehenge www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/09/the-...
The Founding Stones of Stonehenge
I was drafting a summary diagram for use in a presentation I'm giving tonight to the Hampshire Astronomical Society on the Astronomy of Ston...
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September 13, 2024 at 11:31 AM
weborguk.bsky.social
Every so often (like, about every couple of days) I find myself wishing that the PDF of "Stonehenge in its Landscape" (Cleal et al, 1995) on ADS (archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/vie...) wasn't a poorly scanned copy but one that contained the text as text. It'd make searching the thing easier.
English Heritage Archaeological Monographs
English Heritage has a long tradition of producing highly illustrated archaeological monographs about key sites and topics of importance to the understanding of the historic environment in England. Ma...
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk
September 11, 2024 at 7:54 AM
weborguk.bsky.social
Sometimes, the most unexpected things pop out of nowhere and bonk you on the head. #Stonehenge

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Implications of an upright Altar Stone in WA 3639
In the previous post ( Is the Altar Stone the founding stone of Stonehenge? ) I suggested that perhaps Atkinson was correct when he suggeste...
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August 28, 2024 at 9:54 PM
weborguk.bsky.social
www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/08/is-a... - let's indulge in a flight of fancy #Stonehenge #Altar #Orkney
Is the Altar Stone the founding stone of Stonehenge?
You've got to be pretty motivated to bring a 6 ton lump of sandstone from the environs of the Orcadian Basin to Stonehenge (see  The Scottis...
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August 27, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Some of my thoughts on the recent news about the Altar Stone at #Stonehenge

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The Scottish Stone
Here we are, in the middle of August 2024, and over 100 years of received wisdom about the source of the Altar Stone at Stonehenge has appar...
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August 25, 2024 at 6:54 PM