Alexander Thom

Scottish engineer - Ph.D. University of Glasgow (1894-1985) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 91

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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Doctor of Science1929

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