Gop Hill Cairn, Flintshire, North Wales.
Gop Hill cairn is considered to be the second largest cairn in mainland Britain. This mound stands on a commanding hill-top position overlooking the Dee estuary and the distant Wirral peninsula.
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Evening Sun roll down Glop Hill cairn on 13th April, 2019.
On the evening of the 13th April 2019 a photographic study was secured of the Sun's path on the western flank of Gop Hill cairn. A camera position was found from where the final flash of the upper limb of the solar disc sat on the slope of Gop cairn. Without moving the camera position succesive shots were obtained of the solar upper limb rolling down the entire flank of the cairn.
Obliquity on Gop Hill cairn.
As with Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, if the northern flank of Gop cairn is symmetrical, and maintains the Angle of Obliquity, it could still function as an universal foresight in support of calendrical and lunar cycle observations.
Solstices, equinoxes and all major and minor lunar limiting positions.
An Obliquity to the Ecliptic mound: An universal foresight.
As with Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, Gop Hill cairn has been constructed with flanks at precisely the Angle of Obliquity. Hence stances may be found, observing to the cairn's northern slopes, for all rises and sets for both summer and winter solstices, both equinoxes and both Major and Minor Standstills of the Moon.
As with Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, Gop Hill cairn has been constructed with flanks at precisely the Angle of Obliquity. Hence stances may be found, observing to the cairn's northern slopes, for all rises and sets for both summer and winter solstices, both equinoxes and both Major and Minor Standstills of the Moon.