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SO 246 608 
Photograph of sunrise 18th June 2000 AD. Four Stones sits in the beautiful Radnor Vale, Radnorshire. Until recently this site was thought to be the remains of a larger stone setting but comparisons with the many, intact, four stone settings in Perthshire, Scotland, have identified this arrangement as a southern version of these sites which are termed- four-posters. The Hindwell Henge. The Radnor Vale boasts many ancient sites attesting to 5000 years of intensive occupation. The site of a major Roman camp is surrounded by several Bronze Age stone settings and dwarfed by the recent discovery of the post holes of the largest wooden henge yet recognised in Britain. This impressive, oak-trunk defined ring is over 800 metres across it's long diameter with an estimated construction date of 3000 BC. The Roman fort lies squarely over one section, possibly an entrance, of the great henge- a common Roman statement of authority. This suggests the henge was still a prominent part of local culture when the Romans arrived, and would possibly have been in use when the four-poster stone setting, lying a few tens of metres to the west of the great henge, was erected sometime after 2000 BC. Two high- precision Megalithic Calendar alignments emanating from the Four Stones setting have been identified photographically: |
| Megalithic Calendar solstice alignment, CI5.
This photograph of the sun rising on Evenjobb Hill was taken from the Four Stones on the morning of the 18th June 2000 AD.  This is a digital survey of the above photograph showing the corrected position of the sun in 1800 BC. With the trees stripped from the northern flank of Evenjobb Hill we can see how the lower limb of the sun followed the line of the bank. This alignment would appear to be the primary reason for the positioning of the Four Stones.  |
| Calendar alignment for CIs 4&6 from Four stones, Walton to Bache Hill tumulus 1. See following page.
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