New measurements have been made by the author of the orientations of the Channel Islands' megalithic tombs, with a view to determining whether there is any correlation with astronomical phenomena, such as sunrise. The tombs selected for this study included the known passage graves (Figures 2 and 3), whose alignments could, in general, be well defined, and those cists (Figure 4) that appeared to have an undisturbed alignment. This paper summarizes the study, which has been published in greater detail elsewhere. In this paper the names of the tombs generally follow those used by Kendrick7 and Hawkes.8
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