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Author : John Barnatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cromlechs
ISBN : UOM:39015028688722
Author : John Barnatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Peak District (England)
ISBN : 085500164X
Author : John Barnatt
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0906090342
of 15 years' detailed research. The summaries for each of the 87 sites are comprehensively referenced. Of particular interest is the reinterpretation of 32 examples as anything from robbed cairns to quarries. 102p, 51 figs, 3 tables (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 1, J. R. Collis Publications 1990) Pb (Equinox Publishing 1975)
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300083475
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 : Neil McDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446754245
The Lake District A Megalithic Journey Neil McDonald has been visiting the Lake District since childhood, spending many happy hours walking in the spectacular fells and valleys. Over the years he has become an expert in the many ancient, mystical and historical sites of this beautiful part of northern England. Neil has been taking tour groups to the area for many years and in this book he has used his wealth of experience to create a circular tour of some of the best sites the region has to offer.
Author : Adam Morgan Ibbotson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750997638
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 : Shire Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017248316
"Stonehenge is only one of almost a hundred vast circular earthworks built in Britain and Ireland over five thousand years ago. Known as henges, they remain one of the mysteries of prehistoric Britain. With their overgrown banks and weathered ditches they attract few visitors. Yet discoveries have revealed fascinating glimpses of the beliefs of their builders. Excavations have unearthed grim evidence of forgotten rituals: a child's sacrifice at Woodhenge; a human burial at the centre of Arbor Low; winter moonlight at Stonehenge. Such things hint at the power and importance that these huge enclosures once had. The effort needed to raise these spacious rings of earth or chalk, the careful planning of their entrances, the settings of stone or timber inside them and the avenues leading uphill from nearby rivers all make henges among the most exciting and intriguing of the ancient monuments of the British Isles." --Back cover.
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300114060
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 : Julian Cope
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0722535996
In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032279989
Author : John Michell
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Menhirs
ISBN : 1906069034
A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.
Author : Stan Abbott
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781915089816
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 : Jack Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Megalithic monuments
ISBN : 1908378158
Author : Hugh Newman
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781912706198
What are stone circles? When were they built, and why? How come so many of them egg-shaped, or geometrically flattened? What do they have to do with the landscape, Sun, Moon and stars? In this beautifully illustrated book, megalithomaniac Hugh Newman takes us on a fascinating journey around the world, examining these mysterious monuments of the megalithic culture from Wessex to Scotland, France to Poland, North America to Africa and India to Japan. "e;Fascinating"e; FINANCIAL TIMES. "e;Beautiful"e; LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "e;Rich and Artful"e; THE LANCET. "e;Genuinely mind-expanding"e; FORTEAN TIMES. "e;Excellent"e; NEW SCIENTIST. "e;Stunning"e; NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.
Author : Adam Welfare
Publisher : Royal Commission
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland).
ISBN : 1902419553
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.