The Bush Barrow Lozenge, excavated in 1908 by William Cunnington under Richard Colt Hoare and now in Devizes Museum, lay on a male burial. Its long sides meet at exactly 81° — the solstice sunrise-to-sunset gap at Stonehenge's latitude. Collins reads it as a geometric microcosm of the monument. 💎🪨
Bush Barrow Lozenge's 81-degree angle matches Stonehenge's solstitial altar axis
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- The Bush Barrow Lozenge was discovered in 1908 by William Cunnington under Richard Colt Hoare's direction and is held in Devizes Museum.
- It was found on the chest of a male burial in a barrow about a kilometre from Stonehenge.
- The angle between its longest sides is exactly 81°, matching the difference between solstice sunrise and sunset at Stonehenge's latitude.
- The object comprises four interlocked diamonds, the central one subdivided into nine smaller cells, with 36 small triangles around the outer edge.
- Nick Davis is preparing a full exegesis of the lozenge, to be published.
- Collins states that overlaying the lozenge on Stonehenge's plan fits the two proposed altar stones into its design, and that Stonehenge's underlying geometry is based on a unit of nine Imperial feet.
- He argues the lozenge was a geometric microcosm of Stonehenge worn as a badge by a ruler whose seat was almost certainly the monument, a tradition carried on by the incoming Beaker people from about 3000 BC to about 2000 BC.
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