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6.
Ibid., Figure 2.
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10.
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12.
O'KellyM.J., Early Ireland (Cambridge, 1989), 109 and Appendix D. The quoted date (laboratory reference BM-1078) is calibrated and the range of dates is twice the standard deviation.
13.
BrennanM., The stars and the stones: Ancient art and astronomy in Ireland (London, 1983).
14.
Ibid.
15.
Ibid., 144.
16.
Eogan, op. cit. (ref. 9), Plate 76.
17.
See ref. 15.
18.
BrennanM., The Boyne valley vision (Portlaoise, 1980).
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36.
See ref. 34.
37.
Twohig, op. cit. (ref. 11), Figures 110, 117.
38.
Brennan's stone SW9 (Brennan, op. cit. (ref. 13), 138).
39.
O'Kelly, op. cit. (ref. 10), Figure 28.
40.
BurlA., The stone circles of the British Isles (New Haven, 1976), Figure 14.
41.
Brennan, op. cit. (ref. 13), 145.
42.
Ibid., 143.
43.
StookeP. J., “Lunar and planetary cartographic research at the University of Western Ontario”, CISM journal, xlv/1 (1991), 23–31.
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KopalZ. and CarderR. W., Mapping of the moon (Astrophysics and space science library, 1; Dordrecht, 1974), 3.
45.
FlammarionC., La planète Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité (Paris, 1909), 317.
46.
Eogan, op. cit. (ref. 9), Plate VI.
47.
Ibid., Plate 72.
48.
Ibid., Figure 83.
49.
Twohig, op. cit. (ref. 11), Figure 251.
50.
Smith, op. cit. (ref. 2).
51.
WalshG. L., Australia's greatest rock art (Bathurst, 1988), 186. See also LommelA., Prehistoric and primitive man (New York, 1966). Lommel's Figure 37 shows a carved tjuringa or sacred rock with a carved design closely resembling the ‘petal’ patterns described here.
