Rings Of Stone

Author : Stan Abbott
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781915089816

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Ring of Stone Circles by Stan Abbott Pdf

An accessible exploration of England's prehistoric past through the clues set in stone by our ancient ancestors. Stan Abbott explores Britain's neolithic remains, including Castlerigg and Long Meg and her Daughters. In Ring of Stone Circles, Stan Abbott sets out to explore one part of England for the visible clues to our mysterious past from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: stone circles and standing stones, in Cumbria—the Northern English county that boasts more of these monuments than any other. Here, the country’s tallest mountains are ringed by almost fifty circles and henges, most of them sited in the foothills or on outlying plateaux. But why were these built? We may never have a definitive answer to this question, but by observing and comparing sites, a greater understanding emerges. Were some circles built for ritualistic purposes, or perhaps astronomical? Were they burial sites, or simply meeting places? Join Stan Abbott as he searches for the hidden stories these great monuments guard—and might reveal if we get to know them.

Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035964670

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Rings of Stone by Aubrey Burl Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Kehoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Alberta
ISBN : UGA:32108035257495

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Stone Tipi Rings in North-central Montana and the Adjacent Portion of Alberta, Canada by Thomas F. Kehoe Pdf

Author : Leonard Gillman
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486816883

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Rings of Continuous Functions by Leonard Gillman Pdf

Designed as a text as well as a treatise, the first systematic account of the theory of rings of continuous functions remains the basic graduate-level book in this area. 1960 edition.

Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221306

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The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald Pdf

"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."

Author : Joanna Bruck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705366

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Bronze Age Landscapes by Joanna Bruck Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays, which exemplify the range and diversity of work currently being undertaken on the regional landscapes of the British Bronze Age and the progress which has been made in both theoretical and interpretive debate. Together these papers reflect the vibrancy of current research and promote a closer marriage of landscape, site and material culture studies. CONTENTS: Settlement in Scotland during the Second Millennium BC (P Ashmore) ; Place and Space in the Cambridgeshire Bronze Age (T Malim) ; Exploring Bronze Age Norfolk: Longham and Bittering (T Ashwin) ; Ritual Activity at the Foot of the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge (M Hinman) ; The Bronze Age of Manchester Airport: Runway 2 (D Garner) ; Place and Memory in Bronze Age Wessex (D Field) ; Bronze Age Agricultural Intensification in the Thames Valley and Estuary (D Yates) ; The 'Community of Builders': The Barleycroft Post Alignments (C Evans and M Knight) ; 'Breaking New Ground': Land Tenure and Fieldstone Clearance during the Bronze Age (R Johnston) ; Tenure and Territoriality in the British Bronze Age: A Question of Varying Social and Geographical Scales (W Kitchen) ; A Later Bronze Age Landscape on the Avon Levels: Settlement: Settlement, Shelters and Saltmarsh at Cabot Park (M Locock) ; Reading Business Park: The Results of Phases 1 and 2 (A Brossler) ; Leaving Home in the Cornish Bronze Age: Insights into Planned Abandonment Processes (J A Nowakowski) ; Body Metaphors and Technologies of Transformation in the English Middle and Late Bronze Age (J Bruck) ; A Time and a Place for Bronze (M Barber) ; Firstly, Let's get Rid of Ritual (C Pendleton) ; Mining and Prospection for Metals in Early Bronze Age Britain - Making Claims within the Archaeological Landscape (S Timberlake) ; The Times, They are a Changin': Experiencing Continuity and Development in the Early Bronze Age Funerary Rituals of Southwestern Britain (M A Owoc) ; Round Barrows in a Circular World: Monumentalising Landscapes in Early Bronze Age Wessex (A Watson) ; Enduring Images? Image Production and Memory in Earlier Bronze Age Scotland (A Jones) ; Afterward: Back to the Bronze Age

Author : Courtney Nimura,Richard Bradley
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702464

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The Use and reuse of stone circles by Courtney Nimura,Richard Bradley Pdf

The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British and Irish archaeology, and for Scotland most attention has been focused on the large monuments of Orkney and the Western Isles. Several decades of fieldwork have shown how these major structures are likely to be of early date and recognised that that smaller settings of monoliths had a more extended history. Many of the structures in Northern Britain were reused during the later Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the early medieval period. A series of problems demand further investigation including: when were the last stone circles built? How did they differ from earlier constructions? How were they related to henge monuments, especially those of Bronze Age date? How frequently were these places reused, and did this secondary activity change the character of those sites? This major new assessment first presents the results of fieldwork undertaken at the Scottish recumbent stone circle of Hillhead; the stone circles of Waulkmill and Croftmoraig, the stone circle and henge at Hill of Tuach at Kintore; and the small ring cairn at Laikenbuie in Inverness-shire. Part 2 brings together the results of these five projects and puts forward a chronology for the construction and primary use of stone circles, particularly the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age examples. It considers the reuse of stone circles, long after they were built, and discusses four neighbouring stone circles in Aberdeenshire which display both similarites and contrasts in their architecture, use of raw materials, associated artefacts and structural sequences. Finally, a reassessment and reinterpretation of Croftmoraig and its sequence is presented: the new interpretation drawing attention to ways of thinking about these monuments which have still to fulfil their potential.

Author : James T. Finnigan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772821024

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Tipi Rings and Plains Prehistory by James T. Finnigan Pdf

This study compares a model of the relationship between tipi and the tipi ring, using primarily ethnographic information, to data from the British Block Cairn site in southeastern Alberta. It demonstrates that the tipi required a considerable investment of raw materials, and, as a result, the tipi ring is a product of a carefully reasoned decision on the correct anchoring strategy for a given environmental setting.

Author : Christian Maclagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Brittany (France)
ISBN : OXFORD:600025763

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Chips from old stones, by the author of 'Hill forts and stone circles of ancient Scotland'. by Christian Maclagan Pdf

Author : Mike Crowson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409211099

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The Rings of Poseidon by Mike Crowson Pdf

The Rings of Poseidon A team of archaeologists, led by Afro-Caribbean Alyicia Graham is excavating a Stone Age site in the Orkney Islands north of Scotland when they uncover a remarkably preserved copper ring ...a ring which seems to have the power to give the wearer a glimpse of the past ...but is it their own past or that of the ring? Why are all the team somehow connected with the ring? What is a metal ring doing so far back in the Stone Age, and who is seeking the ring over millenia? A story with a strong occult element and a sinister thread running through it, accurately crafted by one who has been a student of the occult for decades. A 'cult novel' of the Western Mystery tradition.

Author : Aull
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781000111118

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Rings of Continuous Function by Aull Pdf

This book contains papers on algebra, functional analysis, and general topology, with a strong interaction with set theoretic axioms and involvement with category theory, presented in the special session on Rings of Continuous Functions held in 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300083475

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The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany by Aubrey Burl Pdf

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 : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0007488351

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The Return of the King by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale of magic and adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, features the definitive edition of the text and includes the Appendices and a revised Index in full.To celebrate the release of the first of Peter Jackson's two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, this third part of The Lord of the Rings is available for a limited time with an exclusive cover image from Peter Jackson's award-winning trilogy.

Author : Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Architecture
ISBN : WISC:89097139141

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) Pdf

Author : Vicki Cummings,Colin Richards
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911188469

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Monuments in the Making by Vicki Cummings,Colin Richards Pdf

Dolmens are iconic international monumental constructions which represent the first megalithic architecture (after menhirs) in north-west Europe. These monuments are characterised by an enormous capstone balanced on top of smaller uprights. However, previous investigations of these extraordinary monuments have focussed on three main areas of debate. First, typology has been a dominant feature of discussion, particularly the position of dolmens in the ordering of chambered tombs. Second, attention has been placed not on how they were built but how they were used. Finally much debate has centred on their visual appearance (whether they were covered by mounds or cairns). This book provides a reappraisal of the ‘dolmen’ as an architectural entity and provides an alternative perspective on function. This is achieved through a re-theorising of the nature of megalithic architecture grounded in the results of a new research/fieldwork project covering Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. It is argued that instead of understanding dolmen simply as chambered tombs these were multi-faceted monuments whose construction was as much to do with enchantment and captivation as it was with containing the dead. Consequently, the presence of human remains within dolmens is also critically evaluated and a new interpretation offered.