Building the Great Stone Circles of the North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building the Great Stone Circles of the North write by Colin Richards. This book was released on 2013-11-30. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Great Stone Circles
Great Stone Circles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Stone Circles write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 1999. Great Stone Circles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 2005-01-01. A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany available 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
Stonehenge
Stonehenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stonehenge write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 2006. Stonehenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Authoritatively researched, new insights into Stonehenge's past Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Drawing on forty years of research and fieldwork, archaeologist Aubrey Burl offers a seminal new view of the changing cults and evolving architecture of Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in this groundbreaking volume. Burl explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric Harroway. He uncovers new evidence that the Welsh bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by glaciation rather than by man. And he reveals just how far the design of Stonehenge was influenced by Breton styles and by Breton cults of the dead. Meticulously researched, the book sets the record straight on the matter of Stonehenge's astronomical alignments. Although the existence of a sightline to the midsummer sunrise is well known, the alignment and the viewingposition are critically different from popular belief. And until now the existence of an earlier alignment to the moon and a later one to the midwinter sunset has been little appreciated. One almost unexplained puzzle remains. The site of Stonehenge lies at the heart of a vast six-mile wide graveyard. All around it are groups of earthen long barrows, the burial places of Neolithic people, many of whom died more than a thousand years before Stonehenge. The mystery is that before Stonehenge there was a vacuum two miles across inside that cemetery. Nothing was inside. Why? Burl points to an answer.
The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany
The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 2000-01-01. The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany available 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.
