Deseret Evening News | 1901-08-10 | Page 18 | The Age of Stonehenge to be Calculated

THE AGE OF STONEHENGE TO 7 O BE CALCULATED r j it r 15 d dr r wa 1 r 4 t 7 r f l I i l i gt I Iii r ii The scientists have hae set themselves n a very cry fascinating problem In their at nl attempt attempt tempt to tl calculate the age of ot that wonderful collection of or monoliths on Pall Falli alit bury plain England by their orientation or relation to the sun lun These great rocks have been een In existence from the earliest times recorded In history and there thero Is no knowledge of at the period of ot erection but the scientists are no now working on all the theory that Stonehenge was wal nn on ancient or Celtic tem tern temple pie pic of at the sun lun god This theory seems borne out by 1 y the fact that several of ot the are In line with the great nt central altar stone and that on the longest longe t day of the year June 21 1 the sun lIun shines almost directly along the tha th tops of ot the former full upon the eastern face of ot the fact that these stones are oriented The astronomers say that the sun lun has risen loss lees and nn tellS less northerly for tor the past 2000 years earl at nt a rate of ot about 1 is 41 seconds of ot arc In t a century This being the case It Is only necessary to calculate the difference In orientation to ascertain approximately the tho age of at the vast valt