94. This is Professor Thom's survey of an egg-shaped stone circle known as Allan Water. This survey can be found on Page 70 of "Megalithic Sites In Britain by A. Thom." 

Allan Water is high on the eastern side of Burgh Hill, one mile north of Priesthoagh on the Hawick to Priesthoagh road in Scotland. It's altitude is 290 metres. 

 
It is important to note that Thom's geometry focuses on the inside faces of some stones and the outsides of others. His survey is therefore corrupt.

The site for Allan Water was carefully chosen for the way the summer solstice sun rises behind the 424-metre high "Rubers Law" some nine miles distant. Scotland has several pyramid-like "Laws" which seem to rise out of empty plains. Rubers Law is probably the largest of them all. 

 
So this egg was placed to take advantage of the Law to its northeast and its particular alignment with the sun. 

However,  when viewed along the axis of the monument we find that because the landscape falls away it allows the northernmost moon to rise a tad early. In fact, with an axis of 38 degrees, Allan Water's axis falls short of the Major Standstill by three degrees - like at Stanton Drew.

95. Working to inside faces only, Allan Water's geometry is not perfect but probably satisfied those who constructed it.

96. Allan Water is partly based on the outer ring of Avebury's Windmill Hill. 

We have superimposed the geometry of Ring A Windmill Hill over the geometry of Allan Water to show the similarity. Bear in mind though that Windmill Hill is twenty five times larger than Allen Water.

 98.  Now for something not corrupt. Spot the moon. 

Moonrise over Coventry City Centre at 20:50, 20TH of August 2024. 

Instead of focusing on a close-up view of the moon, popular today, this is a view of the moon breaking free of the horizon - it is not the bright streetlight but a tiny red circle! - reminiscent of how people in the Stone Age revered the moon.

Neolithic people, such as the builders of Stonehenge, used pairs of timber posts to mark the moonrise and moonset. They used more pairs as the moon reached its maximum southerly point to mark the Major Standstill, which only occurs every 18.61 years. The optimal time for the Major Standstill in 2024 is around Christmas.

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99.   A height map of Allesley CP shows settlements placed close on the line of the southernmost lunar moonset that will occur centred around Xmas 2024. 

100.  A view from settlement 1 looking north. See map. Here, we look towards the rising Major Standstill Xmas 2024.

A chance meeting with a rambler told me that archaeologists have recently excavated this area in advance of a housing estate.  Since then, archaeologists have returned to strip most of it away!  I have no idea what they have or have not found besides a few Roman artefacts.  So work for another day!  I know that the northernmost moon will be seen to rise in late 2033 to the right of the most distant pylon and where the ridge begins to fall off in height.

The busy A45 is just beyond the tree line. Some lorries parked in a layby can be seen through the trees.

Note the pylon on the left; it is not on the moonrise line, but that is where the following picture was taken from.

101. The previous picture failed to clarify that it was taken from the top of another ridge that had appealed to early folks. This photograph should put things right.  X marks the spot where the previous picture was taken and from where archaeologists have been digging.

The grass line, seen passing through the middle of the picture, marks the path of the Pickford brook as it makes its way to join the River Sherbourne.  By Xmas 2024, this brook will be travelling along concrete pipes.

Furthermore, the archaeological investigations in the area marked by the X and everything in front of it have been eradicated in preparation for a housing estate. This development has significant implications for the preservation of the site. Please do not ask me what I think of the idea.

 
Although it's doubtful I shall ever see the lorry driver again, thanks for allowing me to climb into his cab to get this picture.

102.  Having entered these fields from Eastern Green as directed in the CADAS booklet, we paused to photograph the third ridge where one walk started.  The trees mark the line of another branch of the Pickford Brook.

Somewhere in this field, a ring ditch was discovered by aerial photography and was proved prehistoric by the artefacts, some Mesolithic, found by C.H.E.P. (Coventry Historic Environment Project) while field-walking.

103. Winter solstice on 20th December 2022. 

This photograph of the sun was taken off-axis more by accident than deliberation because it was noticed that if it were taken at the junction of the private lane that leads to Alton Hall Farm, the sun would mark the position of the southernmost moonset around Xmas 2024. 

If this picture had been taken on-axis - an almost impossible task with so many obstructions - the sun would have set midway between the electricity pylons.