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| Author | : Colin Richards |
| Publisher | : Windgather Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2013-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1909686131 |
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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 | : Aubrey Burl |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780300083477 |
Download The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780300076899 |
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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 | : Adam Welfare |
| Publisher | : Royal Commission |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Aberdeen (Scotland). |
| ISBN | : 9781902419558 |
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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.
| Author | : Aubrey Burl |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780300114065 |
Download A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Anthony Tuck |
| Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-11-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1627873074 |
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| Author | : Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
| Publisher | : Apple |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2001-07-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780439062596 |
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Cristyn Stone is unhappy about spending her summer in a small town in Wales while her father researches a book. The 16th-century stone house they are staying in holds a haunting secret. Strange noises, weird dreams, a girl ghost, and a mysterious connection to her late mother draw 14-year-old Cristyn deeper into the mystery.
| Author | : Aubrey Burl |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780300023985 |
Download The Stone Circles of the British Isles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
| Author | : Adam Morgan Ibbotson |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2021-07-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 075099763X |
Download Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Whether it is Hadrian's Wall, Kendal Castle or the beautiful fells of the Lake District – for thousands of years people have found a certain elegance and utility in stone. Nestled amongst these common relics are a multitude of massive stone monuments, built over 3,000 years before British shores were ever touched by Roman sandals. Cumbria's 'megalithic' monuments are among Europe's greatest and best-preserved ancient relics but are often poorly understood and rarely visited. Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments aims to dispel the idea that these stones are merely 'mysterious'. Instead, within this book you will find credible answers, using up-to-date research, excavation notes, maps and diagrams to explore one of Britain's richest archaeological landscapes. Featuring stunning original photography and newly illustrated diagrams of every megalithic site in the county, Adam Morgan Ibbotson invites you to take a journey into a land sculpted by ancient hands.
| Author | : Aubrey Burl |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Download A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A guide to the location and condition of the stone circles, how best to approach them, and some archaeological and historical information to better understand the mystery behind these megalithic rings.
