... its roots in the Stonehenge discoveries of the 1960's, namely Hawkins book 'Stonehenge Decoded' (1966), a new field of research on this topic has opened up, known as Archaeoastronomy. The book explored the hypothesis that Stonehenge contained several celestial alignments within its structure. However Hawkins was not the first to put forward such an idea, similar theories can be attributed to the 18th Century, during the time of William Stukeley, when a claim was made that the Heel stone when viewed from the centre of the circle marks the sunrise at summer solstice. It was only in the twentieth Century that such theories were given weight through scientific and academic interest from influential characters such as with Thom, Burl, Ruggles and MacKei. One must ask the question were these structures deliberately aligned to the setting and rising of the sun and moon or were they accidental? And if it was ...

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