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Building The Great Stone Circles Of The North
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Author : Colin Richards
language : en
Publisher: Windgather Press
Release Date : 2013-11-30
Building The Great Stone Circles Of The North written by Colin Richards and has been published by Windgather Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-30 with History categories.
Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.
The Great Stone Circle
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Author : Meredith Hooper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Great Stone Circle written by Meredith Hooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
The Great Stone Circle
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Author : Heather Maxwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-12
The Great Stone Circle written by Heather Maxwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12 with categories.
Great Stone Circles
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Author : Aubrey Burl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Great Stone Circles written by Aubrey Burl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Architecture categories.
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.
Paradona
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Author : R. D. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2010-07
Paradona written by R. D. Shields and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Fiction categories.
The Stone Circles Of Britain Ireland And Brittany
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Author : Aubrey Burl
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Stone Circles Of Britain Ireland And Brittany written by Aubrey Burl and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Building The Great Stone Circles Of The North
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Author : Colin Richards
language : en
Publisher: Windgather Press
Release Date : 2013-11-30
Building The Great Stone Circles Of The North written by Colin Richards and has been published by Windgather Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-30 with History categories.
Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.
A Guide To The Stone Circles Of Britain Ireland And Brittany
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Author : Aubrey Burl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
A Guide To The Stone Circles Of Britain Ireland And Brittany written by Aubrey Burl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.
A guide to the location and condition of the stone circles, how best to approach them, and some archaeological and historical information to better understand the mystery behind these megalithic rings.
A Wirral Megalithic Mystery
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Author : David Gregg
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-01-02
A Wirral Megalithic Mystery written by David Gregg and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-02 with categories.
This is an ancient mystery story. The Wirral peninsula in the county of Cheshire, just north of ancient Chester, is well known for its Viking and Roman history but artifacts going back to the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, such as ritual stone axes and flint arrow heads are also known.Yet no other signs of these early occupants have been recognised...until now.Professor Gregg following clues found by students of old maps, has discovered that at three sites these people designed and constructed great circles and arrays of standing stones using geometrical rules familiar from later European medieval cathedrals.At Saxon Overchurch the ancient chapel stands on a raised platform of earlier date.The platform in turn is surrounded by a great circle, 8 stones of which still survived in the 19th century. That circle is over 1100 ft across and hosted an inscribed hexagon.The professor shows that the probability of chance creating this geometry is minute.Here is the mystery: the position and dimensions of the Saxon and later Norman and medieval church are simply related to the design of the platform and to the great stone circle.There appears to be continuity of design from the Neolithic to the medieval period.The professor explains why this is not so unexpected. Even more remarkable a little to the south at Arrowe Park there once stood two larger concentric circles involving a dozen stones.The inner circle which also hosted a hexagon, was over 2000 ft across.As at Overchurch the proportions of the circles show familiar patterns involving prime roots, phi and pi.Again the professor shows that a chance explanation is out of the question. The geometry is so striking that he investigates the possibility of a 19th century hoax by a Druid obsessed antiquarian landowner.He shows that a hoax is very unlikely. These results are so surprising the skeptical reader may require further evidence.To provide it the professor analyses a third Wirral site. Near the ancient village of Bidston he describes a regular, organised array of 42 stones over 1250 ft long by 800 ft wide.The array has interesting and familiar geometry and as at Overchurch and Arrowe Park that geometry leads to alignments involving 3 or more stones which point to rising and setting points of the Sun and Moon on the local horizon. Major events such as midsummer sunrise are marked by several alignments.Also notable are markers for the pagan cross quarter day festivals of Imbolc, Beltain, Lughnasadh and Samhain which were adopted by the Christian church.It is this continuity of calendrical events from pagan through to Christian times which explains the strange design links at Overchurch spanning the millennia.Professor Gregg reminds us that Pope Gregory the Great himself instructed St. Augustine to adopt the temples of the heathens and rededicate them to Christ and the saints. Overchurch may be a classic example of the results of that policy in Britain. The three ancient sites described in this short book, if the analyses here are confirmed by further field work and research, may be as important as Stonehenge and Avebury. The Arrowe Park circles, for example, far exceed Avebury and all other known stone circles in diameter.The sites are currently unprotected and have already suffered from housing and road developments.It is time to take action to save what may remain.
The Stone Circle
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Author : Anthony Tuck
language : en
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-11-15
The Stone Circle written by Anthony Tuck and has been published by Wheatmark, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Fiction categories.