Megalithomania Conference

GERALD PONTING - Callanish, the Moon & the Sleeping Beauty

Gerald will illustrate some of the lines of research carried out at Callanish, including the rediscovery of lost features by combining documentary studies with work in the field. The relationships of the Callanish Stones to the skies and to the surrounding landscape were investigated in detail. This led, over 25 years ago, to the realisation that the low path of the moon at its southern extreme interacted with the stones and with horizon features such as the Sleeping Beauty. The theory took on a life of its own, resulting in the crowds who gathered to observe the phenomenon in 2006.

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Gerald has written and published fifteen local histories and guidebooks to communities in his native Hampshire. In the 1970s and 1980s, his teaching career took him to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. Here much of his spare time became devoted to archaeological research centred around the Standing Stones of Callanish. He has written a number of books and has lectured widely on the topic, including at international conferences, at the Smithsonian and at Harvard.

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