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Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0300023987
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
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1180808027
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300076894
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 : Rupert Soskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080720728
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Author : Colin Richards
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909686137
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 : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035964670
Author : Max Milligan,Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Megalithic monuments
ISBN : 1860466613
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 : Kenneth L. Campbell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474216692
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 A History of the British Isles is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural and religious history of the British Isles in all its complexity, exploring the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present. A wide range of topics and questions are addressed for each period and territory discussed, including England's Wars of the Roses of the 15th century and their influence on court politics during the 16th century; Ireland's Rebellion of 1798, the Potato Famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916; the two World Wars and the Great Depression; British cultural and social change during the 1960s; and the history and future of the British Isles in the present day. Kenneth Campbell integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by exploring common themes and drawing on comparative examples, while also demonstrating how those histories are different, making this a genuinely integrated text. Campbell's approach allows readers to appreciate the history of the British Isles not just for its own sake, but for the purposes of understanding our current political divisions, our world and ourselves.
Author : Adam Welfare
Publisher : Royal Commission
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.
Author : Richard Bradley,Sharon Arrowsmith
Publisher : Society Antiquaries Scotland
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aberdeenshire (Scotland)
ISBN : 9780903903332
Whilst a report on excavations at three stone circles and two fieldwalking projects in north-east Scotland may not seem very appealing this book does much to heighten public awareness and interest in such sites and re-connects us with the mysterious monuments of the past. This study of the sites of Tomnaverie (Deeside), Cothiemuir Wood (Donside) and Aikey Brae (Buchan) is written in an engaging and approachable style with plenty of illustrative material. Whilst the project was geared towards investigating the character, chronology, structural development and wider context of the stone circles, its results go much further in revealing how people used and perceived such sites and the landscape around them. Here, contextual information, discussion of methodology and objectives are combined with factual data and interpretation as the project members examine various aspects of the sites such as the characterisation (shape, colour and texture) of the stones used, construction techniques, evidence of burning, the presence of human remains and possible solar and lunar alignments. The proffering of new insights into the use and symbolism of the monuments is highly valuable, for example, the suggestion that we should perhaps consider the use of these stone circles during the hours of darkness rather than daylight, an idea first proposed by Aubrey Burl, requires us to re-think our preconceptions about monuments in the past. The rewards of painstaking excavation and trudging through muddy fields are evident in a publication such as this.
Author : Colin Richards,Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0300235984
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sacred space
ISBN : 1888729023
A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.
Author : Julian Heath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538120927
Abundant prehistoric remains survive in the wide landscapes of Europe, but none are arguably as fascinating or awe-inspiring as the “megalithic” (after the Greek megas: great, and lithos: stone) monuments built by the people who lived here during the three hugely important periods of European prehistory known respectively as the Neolithic, the Copper Age, and the Bronze Age. These huge, prehistoric stone structures can still be found scattered in their thousands across Europe and provide a tentative but evocative link to their builders, and to Europe’s distant past. From the Mediterranean islands to the colder climes of Scandinavia, Exploring Megalithic Europe takes readers to many European countries, examining both famous and lesser-known megalithic monuments and looking at what insights these remarkable reminders of prehistoric life may provide into the ancient communities responsible for their construction.