Comments on: When on Google Earth #64 (WOGE 64)

By: When on Google Earth #70 / Rolled Up Sleeves

When on Google Earth #70 / Rolled Up Sleeves — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:53:48 +0000

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By: Matt Bandy

Matt Bandy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:09:04 +0000

Yeah, I figured it was something like that. Nice work.

By: When on Google Earth 65 « Archaeoastronomy

When on Google Earth 65 « Archaeoastronomy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:39:00 +0000

[...] won WOGE 64, by guessing that the site was the Great Circle of Newark, thought I typed BC instead of AD mainly [...]

By: Alun

Alun — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:36:55 +0000

Matt, you’re right I typed in BC rather than AD. I was thinking through to AD 500, but the stuff I’m working on elsewhere is 1st half of the 1st millennium BC. Bad muscle memory.

By: Matt Bandy

Matt Bandy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:14:47 +0000

I don’t want to be picky, but Arun got the date wrong. The Newark Earthworks are Middle Woodland (Hopewell) in date, and construction there, as far as I know, began no earlier than around 100 BC.

By: cfeagans

cfeagans — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:29:17 +0000

You got it! One of the other sites I thought of posting I decided against only because I thought “hmmm… Alun would get this one right away.” And then you go and solve this one! Well done!

Over to you now!

Oh, I’m going to post a little more info about the Great Circle and it’s companion in Newark, The Octagon, hopefully before the next Four Stone Hearth.

By: Alun

Alun — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:31:53 +0000

That would be Newark Great Circle, a Hopewell monument dating from the first half of the 1st millennium BC. I recognise it because a friend has been driving a golf cart across Hopewell monuments to map them with GPS and has a book out on them shortly. It’s a fascinating site. You can see a 360º panorama of it at http://www.360cities.net/image/great-circle-earthworks-moundbuilders-hopwell-eagle-center