The recent passing of Dr Euan MacKie, together with the earlier passing (in April) of Dr Aubrey Burl, and that of professor Keith Critchlow, brings to an end those stalwarts who were part of the surge of interest, during the 1960s and 70s, in archaeoastronomy, earth mysteries and a general quest to connect to our ancestors, to better understand the ancient world so as to include the new data that was pouring in from the work of those three professors, Gerald Hawkins, Alexander Thom, Fred Hoyle and those such as John Michell, whose lot it was to become part of, if not found, an alternative way of exploring our ancient and prehistoric past, often tabbed ‘the lunatic fringe’ within archaeological circles.
