For previous results from Carnac, see ThomA. and ThomA. S., “The Astronomical Significance of the Large Carnac Menhirs”, Journal for the history of astronomy, ii (1971), 147–60 (hereafter cited as Thom I), “The Carnac Alignments”, ibid., iii (1972), 11–26 (Thom II), “The Uses of the Alignments at Le Menec Carnac”, ibid., iii (1972), 151–64 (Thom III), and “The Kerlescan Cromlechs”, ibid., iv (1973), 168–73 (Thom V). The present paper employs the same symbols.
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Thom II, 21.
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For Broadbent's work, see BroadbentS. R., “Quantum Hypotheses”, Biometrika, xlii (1955), 45–57, and “Examination of a Quantum Hypothesis Based on a Single Set of Data”, ibid., xliii (1956), 32–44.
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ThomA., Megalithic sites in Britain (Oxford, 1967).
