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
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.
From Carnac to Callanish
From Carnac to Callanish - 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 From Carnac to Callanish write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 1993-01-01. From Carnac to Callanish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the lines of standing stones that until now have been the neglected wonders of prehistoric Europe, rows that were foci of rituals in Britain, Ireland and Brittany for over two thousand years. Places such as Carnac in Brittany and Callanish in the Hebrides are visited by many visitors each year, but before now there has been no book that seriously explains the history, significance and background to these impressive sites. Aubrey Burl shows that the settings vary from pairs of isolated stones in the far south-west of Ireland to networks of long lines in Scotland, Dartmoor and Brittany, and describes the types in a sequence of architectural chapters that stress the increasing social and commercial connections between regions hundred of miles apart. He uses information from a wide variety of sources - excavation reports, megalithic art, astronomical analyses and legends - to provide explanations of why the rows were erected, when, and what they may have been used for.
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.
Stone Rows and Standing Stones
Stone Rows and Standing Stones - 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 Stone Rows and Standing Stones write by Alexander Thom. This book was released on 1990. Stone Rows and Standing Stones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
