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.
Ring of Stone Circles
Ring of 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 Ring of Stone Circles write by Stan Abbott. This book was released on 2022-11-22. Ring of Stone Circles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
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
Rings of Stone
Rings of Stone - 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 Rings of Stone write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 1980. Rings of Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Building the Great Stone Circles of the North
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.
