Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, Alexander Thom and A. S. Thom's 1978 survey from Clarendon Press, proposed a precise prehistoric "megalithic yard" and systematic astronomical alignments across the sites it surveyed. Its strength is the scale of the underlying site survey. Its limit, named plainly in this record's own superseded classification, is that later archaeoastronomers reanalyzing the same sites with more rigorous statistics found the megalithic yard and much of the claimed alignment precision did not hold up; cite this for the historical claim and site data, not as current archaeoastronomical consensus.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Alexander Thom and A. S. Thom's Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, published by Clarendon Press in 1978, the middle tier reflecting the scale of its underlying site survey weighed against the record's own noted limit: later archaeoastronomers reanalyzing the same sites with more rigorous statistics found the proposed megalithic yard and much of the claimed alignment precision did not hold up. NotesScholarly survey of megalithic remains in Britain and Brittany, Clarendon Press, 1978.
Citation
AuthorAlexander Thom and A. S. Thom
PublisherClarendon Press
Publication Year1978
Source TypeScholarly (superseded)
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.