Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300023985
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
The Stone Circles of the British Isles
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300023985
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300023985
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300083477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300114065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300114065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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
Stone Circles of British Isles
Rings of Stone
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Standing with Stones
Author: Rupert Soskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Ireland.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Ireland.
Great Crowns of Stone
Author: Adam Welfare
Publisher: Royal Commission
ISBN: 9781902419558
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland).
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
Publisher: Royal Commission
ISBN: 9781902419558
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland).
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
Prehistoric Stone Circles
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Bloomsbury Shire Publications
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomsbury Shire Publications
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A History of the British Isles
Author: Kenneth L. Campbell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474216692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 A History of the British Isles is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural and religious history of the British Isles in all its complexity, exploring the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present. A wide range of topics and questions are addressed for each period and territory discussed, including England's Wars of the Roses of the 15th century and their influence on court politics during the 16th century; Ireland's Rebellion of 1798, the Potato Famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916; the two World Wars and the Great Depression; British cultural and social change during the 1960s; and the history and future of the British Isles in the present day. Kenneth Campbell integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by exploring common themes and drawing on comparative examples, while also demonstrating how those histories are different, making this a genuinely integrated text. Campbell's approach allows readers to appreciate the history of the British Isles not just for its own sake, but for the purposes of understanding our current political divisions, our world and ourselves.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474216692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 A History of the British Isles is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural and religious history of the British Isles in all its complexity, exploring the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present. A wide range of topics and questions are addressed for each period and territory discussed, including England's Wars of the Roses of the 15th century and their influence on court politics during the 16th century; Ireland's Rebellion of 1798, the Potato Famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916; the two World Wars and the Great Depression; British cultural and social change during the 1960s; and the history and future of the British Isles in the present day. Kenneth Campbell integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by exploring common themes and drawing on comparative examples, while also demonstrating how those histories are different, making this a genuinely integrated text. Campbell's approach allows readers to appreciate the history of the British Isles not just for its own sake, but for the purposes of understanding our current political divisions, our world and ourselves.
The Stone Circles: A Field Guide
Author: Colin Richards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300235982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300235982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description