A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany

Author: Aubrey Burl

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780300114065

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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

Author: Aubrey Burl

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780300083477

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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.

Great Stone Circles
Great Stone Circles

Author: Aubrey Burl

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 9780300076899

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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.

Prehistoric Avebury
Prehistoric Avebury

Author: Aubrey Burl

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780300090871

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This magnificent book is a fascinating account of the prehistoric stone circles at Avebury, which not only II date from an earlier era but are also larger than the more famous sarsen stone circle of Stonehenge. Written by a leading archaeologist, the book considers every aspect of Avebury's history and construction and discusses the probable purpose of these massive structures, in the process creating a vivid and moving picture of their creators -- a primitive people whose lives were brief, savage, and fearful.

The Stone Circles of the British Isles
The Stone Circles of the British Isles

Author: Aubrey Burl

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780300023985

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Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments

The Modern Antiquarian
The Modern Antiquarian

Author: Julian Cope

Publisher: HarperThorsons

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780722535998

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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.

John Aubrey & Stone Circles
John Aubrey & Stone Circles

Author: Aubrey Burl

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2010-10-15

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1445620146

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The career of eminent archaeologist John Aubrey and his revolutionary work on stone circles.