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Another stone alignment was the west coast of Scotland is simpler, probably older, and in a way, more striking than Stonehenge. If you stand on a little stone platform and look toward the southwest over the top of a vertical stone, you can see a notch formed by two mountains on an island 45 km away. On 22 December the sun can be seen to set exactly within that notch along the sightline. On that day the sun rises in the southeast about 9 am, gets about 10 degree above the horizon at noon, and sets in the southwest about 3 pm.

Excerpted from ‘Children of Promotheus: A history of Science and Technology’ by James McLachlan