There was another ´wayfinders´ further up the road.

Thanks for your essay on anger, Elizabeth. Much needed words and many more like this needed.

Thanks, Nicholas.

Absolutely amazing, Pete. Nick has created a most brilliant image of the Perseid meteor shower over Stonehenge. Quite breathtaking.

I often thought of it as a sort of signpost leading the way to what was the ancient kingdom of Aileach and can imagine it well as an óenach or assembly.

The surrounding landscape consists of hills forming a calendar using the point of sunrise and sunset establishing the time of year. One group of hills to the west is called the Seven Sisters and interestingly the Pleiades can still be observed setting in the vicinity of those hills.

The monument is aligned to the equinox sunrise and I have the moon observed doing the same some years ago at the minor lunar standstill. But it is possible that the moon shines a beam of light through the inside in between as well.

The monument itself is placed at the beginning of the slope which strongly suggest it never was mend as a defensive structure but most likely to accommodate one or more alignments.

Elizabeth FitzPatrick in her book Royal Inauguration In Gaelic Ireland 1100-1600 has the Grianan down as an inauguration site, which I always thought was a possibility.