February
27
/ 2022
Following work which began in the 1970s and spanned nearly 40 years, Peter Harris and Norman Stockdale identified a “new” unit of length in 2015. They called it the Harris and Stockdale Megalithic Foot, or the HSMF for short, to distinguish it from other similar lengths. It is 14.142 inches (35.92 cm) or 1.1785 feet (35.92 cm), the length of the diagonal of a 10-inch (25.4 cm) square. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"94496","attributes":{"alt":"Illustration of the diameter of a 10-inch (25.4 cm) square. (Author provided)","class":"media-image","height":"610","style":"width: 610px; height: 610px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Illustration of the diameter of a 10-inch (25.4 cm) square. (Author provided) In their analysis, they had surmised that celestial time periods of the Sun or Moon might have been used in conjunction with the HSMF to
