Multiple Observation Lines for the Summer Solstice Sun Rise in the Majorville Medicine Wheel Complex

Conference Paper

Multiple Observation Lines for the Summer Solstice Sun Rise in the Majorville Medicine Wheel Complex

Gordon Freeman

Abstract

The central part of the Majorville Medicine Wheel Complex is constructed on three hills of equal height, 919 m above MSL, along a NE - SW line, 1.9 km between NE and SW summits. The Majorville Medicine Wheel is on the NE summit. A smaller Medicine Wheel is on the middle summit. A cairn is on the SW summit. The hills are functionally connected by multiple observation lines for the Summer Solstice Sun Rise (SSR) and for the Winter Solstice Sun Set (WSS). The present paper displays several SSR lines. I will submit a paper about several WSS lines to Chacmool 2001. One SSR line is from the cairn on the SW summit to a cairn 1.6 km away on a West shoulder of the NE hill. Observed from the top of the back cairn, the foresight cairn nearly touches the distant horizon, about 30 km away. A 1.7 km SSR line contains three visible pairs of rocks along its length, and ends at the Majorville Cairn. Three other lines will be demonstrated.