
Episode 148 - Ask the experts: Everything you want to know about the Neolithic period
The English Heritage Podcast
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The Midsummer Sunrise and the Midwinter Sunset
The setting sun is actually, it sets in a particular place between the stones. So looking out from stonehenge, that the setting sun drops down into a little slot sort of thing. We did get spectacular weather this year, i'm very pleased to say, for both the sunrise on the midwinter and the sunset as well. But it wouldn't have happened all the time like that. And one can only imagine how they might have felt if it was particularly bad weather, it was dark and dank. They probably did have people who were, you know, what we would call astronomers, or they might have had, you know,. almost like shamans, who were people who had
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