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Stone Age satnav: Did ancient man use 5,000-year-oldtravel chart to navigate across Britain

By David DerbyshireLast updated at 9:07 AM on 15th September 2009

It's considered to be one of the more recent innovations to help the hapless traveller.

But the satnav system may not be as modern as we think.

According to a new theory, prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a similar system based on stone circlesand other markers.

Connected by triangles: Some of the sites created by Stone Age man (below)

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The complex network of stones, hill forts and earthworks allowed travellers to trek hundreds of miles with 'pinpoint accuracy'more than 5,000 years ago, amateur historian Tom Brooks says. The grid covered much of southern England

and Wales and included landmarks such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, claims Mr Brooks, a retired marketing executive ofHoniton, Devon.

He analysed 1,500 prehistoric sites in England and Wales and was able to connect all of them to at least two other sites usingisosceles triangles - these are triangles with two sides the same length.

This, he says, is proof that the landmarks were deliberately created as navigational aides. Many were built within sight of eachother and provided a simple way to get from A to B.

For more complex journeys, they would have broken up the route into a series of easy to navigate steps.

Anyone starting at Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, for instance, could have used the grid to get to Lanyon Quoit in Cornwall without amap.

Mr Brooks added: 'The sides of some of the triangles are over 100 miles across, yet the distances are accurate to within 100

metres. You cannot do that by chance.




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'So advanced, sophisticated and accurate is the geometrical surveying now discovered, that we must review fundamentally theperception of our Stone Age forebears as primitive, or conclude that they received some form of external guidance.'

On the question of 'external guidance', he does not rule out extraterrestrial help.

However, Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology, said: 'The landscape of southern Britain was intensively settled and thereare many earth works and archaeological finds. It is very easy to find patterns in the landscape, but it doesn't mean that they

are real.'

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One of the monuments was on Silbury Hill, Wiltshire. It was part of a giant geometric grid used for navigating

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Why would anyone be amazed at such ingenuity? ___ Get your average modern urbanite out in the wilds, and how long would they survive? ___ Howmany of us could make serviceable bows, arrows, spears, or atlatls? ___ Could we build a fire, catch or kill prey, skin, butcher, and cook game? ___Intelligence is relative. ___ By what self-serving metric do we call these ancient people 'primitive'?

- Marc, Bayonne NJ USA, 16/9/2009 19:43

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Report abuseWhy isosceles? Sight lines to aid navigation make sense. But in getting from A to B, what good is it to know that C and A are equidistant from B? Also,that the technology existed is easier to believe than that there was some nationwide organization.

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So what's the big deal? Anyone who reads Graham Hancock's, Fingerprints of the Gods, will not be surprised by this discovery. Just look at thealignment of the Pyramids of Egypt and South America with the celestial bodies and the engineering mavels that rival anything modern and you realize, itwas no accident.

- Kevin Barry, Braintree, USA, 16/9/2009 17:17

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How are these lines different from ley lines? Or do they coincide?

- Kevin, Olathe, KS, USA, 16/9/2009 11:26


Report abuseAll high points are lookout posts, its normal.

- BOB, Cheshunt-England, 16/9/2009 10:18


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This has nothing to do with navigation. These sites are situated on powerful force fields - areas where ancients could feel these engeries rising from theearth. Few people can do this today but those who can know.

- lauren, london, 16/9/2009 05:55


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