Alexander Thom

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Scottish engineer - Ph.D. University of Glasgow (1894-1985)

United Kingdom AcademicsLived 1894 to 1985 · aged 91

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Alexander Thom was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard, categorisation of stone circles and his studies of Stonehenge and other archaeological sites.

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Long Meg and Her Daughters, the largest example of Alexander Thom's Type B Flattened Circle

The Locmariaquer megaliths in Brittany in France, suggested by Thom to have been once used for major lunar alignments in the BBC's Chronicle - Cracking the Stone Age code

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1929Doctor of Science

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