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Hello,
I will try to traslate the message I sent to the italian mail list
Gnomonicaitalia, according to Fer De Vries request.
In the last number of the National Geographic (Italian
Version), there is an interesting article about an archaeological site in Fossa
(AQ) in Abruzzo, Italy, where a pre-roman necropolis( sec. X - I BC) has been
found. The site is covered by graves that shows an
orientation EST-WEST. In the italian version of this mail you can find
a photo showing some graves with stones alignaments. The article says
that those stones (max 2,5 mt high) are placed in a decreasing order on the
floor starting from the grave's circle. The explanation of this
configuration isn't sure. Archaeologists thinks that the meaning of
those alignaments is astronomical, but at the moment no one can imagine its
real meaning. A computer project is studing the position of the sun on the
lasts 3000 years and the shadows projected by the stones according to the
seasons and the hours of the days.
If the stone's astronomical function will be proved, at last we will have
an original and ancient group of sundial's instruments.
Ciao
Marco Rossi
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