Great stone circles : fables, fictions, facts / Aubrey Burl.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]Description: 199 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300076894
- 936.2 21
- GN805 .B8665 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-196) and index.
Part 1 - Fables, fictions and facts. 1 The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire. 2 Long Meg and her daughters, Cumbria. 3 Stanton Drew, Somerset. 4 A Cornish quartet. 5 Woodhenge, Wiltshire. Part 2 - Stonehenge. 6 Stonehenge, Wiltshire. 7 Transportation or glaciation?. 8 The heel stone. 9 The slaughter stone. 10 The Sarsen horseshoe. Part 3 - The making of a stone circle. 11 Swinside, Cumbria
'...The reality is that stone circles can be explained and this book is an attempt to do so. It is neither a guide nor a general study. It is a debate that uses twelve attractive and informative rings in much more detail than is normally possible in order to remove some of the uncertainties that befuddle research into the problems of prehistory. The sites have been chosen because each encapsulates a particular problem and provides an explanation.'
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