Megaliths at 50

Standing stone

It’s 50 years since a group of undergraduates from the Cambridge University Astronomical Society had a holiday surveying megalithic sites in Argyll to investigate possible astronomical alignments. It was a lot of fun, and we even wrote it up and the results were published in a paper in Nature 253, 431‑433 (1975) which was probably something of an achievement at the time, though I’m not sure that we realised how much!

Bailey, Ruggles, Cooke, Morgan, Few – the authors

We had a great time meeting up and revisiting old haunts in the area. We did a bit of sightseeing too, since the partners are not necessarily megalith enthusiasts!

Crinan canal basin
In a tree seat at Arduaine gardens
Deirdre’s memorial bell in Angus’s garden
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