Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300023985
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300114065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. This new edition includes a section on "Druidical" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company."--Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology "This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic."--Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland
Author: Rupert Soskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Ireland.
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300076899
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Archaeologist Aubrey Burl, for more than thirty years a specialist in the study of stone circles, selects a dozen attractive and evocative rings for close examination. Each of the twelve sites illuminates a particular archaeological question - the purpose of stone circles, their construction, age, distribution, design, art, legend and relation to astronomy. Burl asks, and offers sometimes surprising answers to questions about Stonehenge: how were its bluestones transported from south-west Wales, why was its Slaughter Stone not used for sacrifice, and why is Stonehenge - the most British of stone circles - not a stone circle and not British? To conclude his account of the strange subtleties of stone circles, Burl reconstructs the social history of Swinside in the Lake District, describing the builders, their way of life, and the ceremonies they performed inside their lovely ring.
Author: Colin Richards
Publisher: Windgather Press
ISBN: 1909686131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description
Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.
Author: Max Milligan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781860466618
Category : Megalithic monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book offers detailed historical accounts of these megalithic rings, and recounts the powerful myths and legends that have surrounded them and persist to this day.
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Author: Adam Welfare
Publisher: Royal Commission
ISBN: 9781902419558
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland).
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Stone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
