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This study aims to investigate the circularity of the landscapes surrounding recumbent stone circles in northeast Scotland and southwest Ireland. It will build on previous work analyzing the monuments' typology and apparent links between the two regions. The study seeks to utilize GIS technology and phenomenological techniques to quantify perceptions of circularity in the landscapes. It will develop a methodology for this analysis, beginning with defining circularity to clarify the current ambiguity. A method for quantifying the perception of circularity when exploring an area will be established. The analysis will then quantify views of circularity through questionnaires as well as the geographical features of landscapes containing the monuments. This will provide a collaboration between the psychological, phenomenological and quantifiable landscape aspects analyzed using

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Aims and Objectives

This study aims to investigate the circularity of the landscapes surrounding recumbent stone circles in northeast Scotland and southwest Ireland. It will build on previous work analyzing the monuments' typology and apparent links between the two regions. The study seeks to utilize GIS technology and phenomenological techniques to quantify perceptions of circularity in the landscapes. It will develop a methodology for this analysis, beginning with defining circularity to clarify the current ambiguity. A method for quantifying the perception of circularity when exploring an area will be established. The analysis will then quantify views of circularity through questionnaires as well as the geographical features of landscapes containing the monuments. This will provide a collaboration between the psychological, phenomenological and quantifiable landscape aspects analyzed using

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Gary Nobles Aims and Objectives

1.0 Aims and Objectives

This study investigates the circularity of the far horizon surrounding Recumbent Stone Circles
of North East Scotland and South West Ireland. It is largely based upon the previous works of
Richard Bradley (1998) and Colin Richards (1996:190-208) as well as building upon the
recommendations and methodology suggested by Mark Lake and Patricia Woodman
(2003:689-707). This paper aspires to utilise Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
technology in an amalgamation with phenomenological techniques as well as developing a
further methodology for this type of analysis. The monument type, Recumbent Stone Circle,
was chosen due to their relative geographic isolation; this confinement to a reasonably small
area allows for the implementation of a series of Monte-Carlo tests. Also the apparent
monumental link between these two areas is strong due to their typology, this also allows for a
possible series of comparisons to be drawn between the two regions.

To begin with a definition of circularity needs to be established in order to clarify the current
situation, at present it has been left in a state of ambiguity with two possible interpretations.
Defining a landscape as circular has its own problems, what may look like a circular landscape
on a plan may not feel the same when a person is exploring that same area, therefore a method
for quantifying this perception of circularity is required. Once this initial framework has been
constructed the analysis of the Recumbent Stone Circles will be feasible.

This analysis constitutes the quantification of contemporary views of circularity through a


questionnaire, as well as the geographical quantification of landscapes which contain these
monuments. These two analyses are then united to provide collaboration between the
psychological and phenomenological with the quantifiable and measurable landscape derived
using GIS.

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