Records in Stone: Papers in memory of Alexander Thom

Edited by Clive Ruggles

Cambridge University Press 1988 and 2003


Contents list

Part 1: Alexander Thom's life and work

1 A personal note about my late father, Alexander Thom. Archie Thom 3

2 A personal appreciation of Professor Alexander Thom. Hans Motz 14

3 The career and publications of Alexander Thom. Compiled by Archie Thom 21

4 A catalogue of the Alexander Thom archive held in the National Monuments Record of Scotland. Lesley Ferguson 31

5 The metrology and geometry of Megalithic Man. Alexander Thom & Archie Thom 132


Bridging Piece

6 Megalithic landscapes. Chris Jennings 155


Part 2: Research papers in archaeological areas inspired by Alexander Thom

7 'Without sharp north...' Alexander Thom and the great stone circles of Cumbria. Aubrey Burl 175

8 Investigating the prehistoric solar calendar. Euan MacKie 206

9 The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: A perspective on the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy. Clive Ruggles 232

10 A cluster analysis of astronomical orientations. Jon Patrick & Peter Freeman 251

11 Megalithic observatories in Britain: real or imagined? Ray Norris 262

12 The stone rows of northern Scotland. Leslie Myatt 277

13 Stones in the landscape of Brittany. Pierre-Roland Giot 319

14 The orientation of visibility from the chambered cairns of Eday, Orkney. David Fraser 325

15 The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Graham Ritchie 337

16 The geometry of some megalithic rings. Ronald Curtis 351

17 Megalithic compound ring geometry. Thaddeus Cowan 378

18 The metrology of cup-and-ring carvings. Alan Davis 392

19 Megalithic Callanish. Margaret Ponting 423

20 The Thom paradigm in the Americas: The case of the cross-circle designs. Anthony Aveni 442

21 Light in the temples. Ed Krupp 473


Author: Clive Ruggles