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A '''Megalithic Yard''' is the diagonal of a rectangle measuring 2 by 1 Remens.<ref name="Ivimy1975">{{cite book|author=John Ivimy|title=The Sphinx & the megaliths, p. 133|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8AN9AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=6 April 2011|date=September 1975|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=9780060121525}}</ref> |
A '''Megalithic Yard''' is the diagonal of a rectangle measuring 2 by 1 Remens.<ref name="Ivimy1975">{{cite book|author=John Ivimy|title=The Sphinx & the megaliths, p. 133|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8AN9AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=6 April 2011|date=September 1975|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=9780060121525}}</ref> |
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It was the size of standard measuring rods used to survey and design 145 [[stone circles]] in [[Britain]]. |
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Revision as of 15:58, 19 April 2011
A Megalithic Yard is the diagonal of a rectangle measuring 2 by 1 Remens.[1]
It was the size of standard measuring rods used to survey and design 145 stone circles in Britain.
References
- ^ John Ivimy (September 1975). The Sphinx & the megaliths, p. 133. Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060121525. Retrieved 6 April 2011.