| Uriel's Machine by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas |
| review from Trevor Allcott, sometime Crimond, presently in Texas: |
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| If you have not yet read 'Uriel's Machine' by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, I think you will find it |
| a fascinating and important book. Whilst they have some interesting insights into some of our stone circles, |
| along with Newgrange and Bryn Celli Ddu, the item which captures my imagination is that they have |
| extracted from the section of the Book of Enoch known as the Book of Heavenly Luminaries clear and |
| simple instructions for the construction and use of an accurate and sophisticated horizon declinometer which |
| would work at any latitude and with any sort of horizon features. The item which has convinced me that they |
| are on to something is that Thom's Megalithic Yard is a physical function of the machine, within its natural |
| geometry. You will recollect that objections to Thom's theory were that it was an intellectual concept, and |
| also that the manufacture and distribution of standard measuring rods was not a reasonable idea for that |
| period of civilisation. |
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| Here is the answer - Thom merely identified a natural characteristic contained within the circles he surveyed. |
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| Trevor Allcott is a member of Friends of Grampian Stones |
