The man who decoded Stone Age Britain

A tribute to the remarkable research and findings of the late Tom Brooks (1927–2019) who discovered the grand plan of ancient British geometers — a vast integrated network of prehistoric sites

One of Tom Brooks’ impressive charts showing long-distance alignments, centred on Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, spanning the south of England and Wales. Each numbered point represents a prehistoric site.

Tom Brooks looked out across the Dorset uplands with a countryman’s assured eye, but also with a frown. Here, near the village of Milborne St Andrew, the latest Ordnance Survey maps showed a prehistoric long barrow, or ‘chambered tomb’.

But the monument had long gone — only a slight rise in the field suggested its one-time location. ‘You wouldn’t know there had been one there at all,’ Tom said. ‘And along the hedgerow, there’s supposed to be a tumulus, but it’s not there either.’

Near Tom’s childhood home in Devon, the hill camp of Stockland Great Castle was under threat, reduced in size by half over the years by agricultural encroachment. Tom was deeply concerned about such losses because of a remarkable discovery he had made that decoded Britain’s prehistory.

After decades of meticulous research involving countless mathematical computations, based upon the true position of each ancient site relative to all others, according to the Ordnance…