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Simon (@weborguk@toot.community)
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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.

www.stonehengemonument.co.uk
www.stonesofstonehenge.org.uk
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November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Sooo… when does Grok get given a GPP?
August 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Simon (@weborguk@toot.community)
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
Reposted by Simon (@weborguk@toot.community)
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The Larkhill Sun Gap - an article by me working out exactly where it was.

www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2025/02/the-...
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
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
#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
Up at @timdaw.bsky.social 's long barrow this morning for the solstice sunrise open day.
December 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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.
November 18, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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
Sometimes, the most unexpected things pop out of nowhere and bonk you on the head. #Stonehenge

www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/08/impl...
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