The theory was first put forward in 1934 by Katherine Maltwood, an artist who "discovered" the zodiac in a vision, and held that the "temple" was created by Sumerians in about 2700 BC.
[2] Compared to Maltwood's version, she turned Scorpio upside down, added a monk to Gemini, and altered the outlines of Capricorn, Libra, and Leo.
The idea was examined by two independent studies, one by Ian Burrow in 1975 [3] and the other in 1983 by Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy,[4] using the standard methods of landscape historical research.
The Cancer boat (not a crab as would be expected) is made up of a network of eighteenth century drainage ditches and paths.
Glastonbury historian Geoffrey Ashe commented, "The phenomenon is akin to the Rorschach ink-blot test, or to seeing pictures in a fire", and "Zodiac-finders do not themselves agree on these 'obvious figures'.