Main entry:

Burl, Aubrey.

Title & Author:

Great stone circles : fables, fictions, facts / Aubrey Burl.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.

Description:

199 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196) and index.
Fables, fictions and facts -- The Rollright stones, Oxfordshire -- Long Meg and her daughters, Cumbria -- Stanton Drew, Somerset -- A Cornish quartet -- Woodhenge, Wiltshire -- Stonehenge, Wiltshire -- Transportation or glaciation? -- The heel stone -- The slaughter stone -- The Sarsen horseshoe -- The making of a stone circle -- Swinside, Cumbria.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300076894
9780300076899

Subject:

Stone circles England.
Megalithic monuments England.
Monuments mégalithiques Angleterre.
Antiquities.
Megalithic monuments.
Stone circles.
Megalieten.
Stonehenge.
Cromlechs Great Britain.
Megalithic monuments Great Britain.
Stone circles Great Britain.
Stonehenge (England)
England Antiquities.
Stonehenge (Angleterre)
Angleterre Antiquités.
England.
England Stonehenge.
Great Britain Antiquities.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204699
Call No.: GN805 .B8665 1999
Status: Available