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Author : Chris Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951044476
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Stones of Wales written by Chris Barber and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ancient Stones of Wales written by Chris Barber and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rupert Soskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Standing with Stones written by Rupert Soskin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland.
Author : Andy Burnham
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786782030
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Old Stones written by Andy Burnham and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Current Archaeology’s Book of the Year Discover the iconic standing stones and prehistoric sites of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland—this comprehensive, coffee table travel guide features over 750 must-see destinations, with maps and color photographs The ultimate insiders’ guide, The Old Stones gives unparalleled insight into where to find prehistoric sites and how to understand them, by drawing on the knowledge, expertise and passion of the archaeologists, theorists, photographers and stones aficionados who contribute to the world’s biggest megalithic website—the Megalithic Portal. Including over 30 maps and site plans and hundreds of color photographs, it also contains scores of articles by a wide range of contributors—from archaeologists and archaeoastronomers to dowsers and geomancers—that will change the way you see these amazing survivals from our distant past. Locate over 1,000 of Britain and Ireland’s most atmospheric prehistoric places, from recently discovered moorland circles to standing stones hidden in housing estates. Discover which sites could align with celestial bodies or horizon landmarks. Explore acoustic, color, and shadow theory to get inside the minds of the Neolithic and Bronze Age people who created these extraordinary places. Find out which sites have the most spectacular views, which are the best for getting away from it all and which have been immortalized in music. And don't forget to visit the Megalithic Portal website and get involved by posting your discoveries online. All royalties from this book go to support the running of the Megalithic Portal: www.megalithic.com.
Author : Chris Barber
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445674017
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Megaliths of Wales written by Chris Barber and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient standing stones, stone circles and burial chambers of Wales - remarkable feats of construction that are surrounded by legend.
Author : David Corio
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781446483046
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Megaliths written by David Corio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Corio has systematically photographed the megalithic sites of England and Wales with the eye of a great landscape photographer as well as with the passion of an explorer in the ruins of an ancient culture. These photographs go to the heart of prehistoric England and reveal a profound sense of 'place'. The sites are revealed with all the beauty that invited Romantic speculation from the seventeenth century onwards as well as the encroaching modern world of distant urban skylines and protective barriers. Lai Ngan's text distils the mythical narratives that arose around these extraordinary structures and places as well as pointing to the recent astronomical and mathematical research which suggests their remarkable function in the prehistoric calendar. The photographs point to the beginning of architecture itself in Britain, with the suggestion of both sacred and secular function, layered in the fabulous tales of popular imagination.
Author : George Williams
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Standing Stones of Wales and South-West England written by George Williams and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval boundaries, early Christian monuments or merely stones for cattle to scratch their backs on? This review and collection of new evidence suggests that the overwhelming number of those that have a prehistoric context are in places which have a ritual significance.
Author : Martin Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781326078522
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (785 download)
Download or read book A Pile Of Old Stones written by Martin Price and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the BBC dedicated an hour long programme to it in early 2021, few knew that some stones on a peaty moorland in Pembrokeshire were once the largest stone circle in Britain, and they were the exact stones transported to create the 'original' Stonehenge. Similarly, until recently a peaty moorland site in Carmarthenshire had been designated as merely one of nearly 700 Iron Age forts in Wales. Now research has concluded that it is not only several thousand years older, but was once a major Neolithic religious centre, and, indeed, is the largest ancient stone monument in Britain. This book compellingly makes the case in a heavily researched, but lightly written, style that encourages the reader to draw their own conclusions.
Author : Andy Burnham
Publisher : Watkins
ISBN 13 : 1786782413
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Old Stones of Wales written by Andy Burnham and published by Watkins. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many hundreds of fascinating prehistoric sites in Wales, in some of the most beautiful locations in Britain, from mountaintop settings, such as at Bryn Cader Faner, to headlands with all-round sea views, as at Coetan Arthur, or on truly remote moorland, as at Bannau Sir Gaer. The road links between North and South Wales are not that great, so it's probably best to choose one or the other as a destination unless you are up for a lot of motoring. In North Wales, Anglesey has a particularly dense concentration of megalithic sites, with many in Gwynedd and Conwy to visit on the way. South Wales stretches from Monmouthshire to Pembrokeshire, where there is the biggest and best variety of sites, including the iconic Pentre Ifan with its capstone apparently delicately floating over its three massive uprights. The Old Stones of Wales is part of a series covering the megalithic and other prehistoric sites of Britain and Ireland. The series is published together as The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland, available as a book and an ebook.
Author : Julian Cope
Publisher : HarperThorsons
ISBN 13 : 9780722535998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Modern Antiquarian written by Julian Cope and published by HarperThorsons. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Obadiah Westwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Lapidarium Walliæ written by John Obadiah Westwood and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300076899
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Great Stone Circles written by Aubrey Burl and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Dewi Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947992828
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Ancient Siluria written by Dewi Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
Publisher : Five Star Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589851986
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Spirit Stones written by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff and published by Five Star Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a decade in the making, award-winning author Dianne Ebertt Beeaff's transcending new book, Spirit Stones, explores the enduring lessons of Europe's prehistoric monoliths, stone circles and burial chambers. Beeaff's fastidious research, first-hand accounts and prevailing love of history capture not only the architectural essence of these archeological treasures, but also their spiritual strength. Uniting civilization throughout the ages, the stone relics being rediscovered throughout Western Europe speak not only of our Neolithic and Bronze Age past, but also of contemporary humanity. The lessons of these ancient stones can help our present-day society unearth and cultivate its own spiritual potential…with reverence, celebration and hope.
Author : William Douglas Simpson
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Stones of Scotland written by William Douglas Simpson and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1968 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Publisher : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1871184193
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)
Download or read book An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Brecknock (Brycheiniog) written by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and published by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication forms Part i of the Royal Commission's Inventory of the Prehistoric and Roman remains of the County of Brecknock (Brycheiniog). Part ii, Hill-Forts and Roman remains was produced in 1986. This volume covers Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age sites with all undefended and unenclosed settlements of probable pre-Norman date, together with summary finds lists and a handlist of Dark Age inscribed stones. Of particular interest in this volume are plans of the unenclosed settlements, some forming parts of palimpsest landscapes, the survey of which was a new departure for the Royal Commission. Inventory Part i: Later Prehistoric Monuments and Unenclosed Settlements to 1000 A.D. Physical Background and Post-glacial History Cave Archaeology Prehistoric (and later) cave sites The Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Periods Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites and findspots Neolithic Settlement and Burial Neolithic Court Tombs Burial and Ritual Structures of the Bronze Age Round Cairns and Barrows of the Bronze Age Other Bronze Age Burials and Lost Cairns; Tithe Award and other Placenames Stone Circles and Stone Settings Stone Circles and Stone Settings: the sites Standing Stones Standing Stones: the sites Mounds of Burned Stone Burned Mounds Later Prehistoric and Protohistoric Settlement Unenclosed Settlements Hillforts (Addendum to Vol 1 (ii) Early Medieval Landholding, Estates and Ecclesiastical Centres Crannog A Handlist of Early Christian Stones Later Prehistoric Lithic Finds Handlist of Bronze Age Bronze Artefacts Index of National Grid References Glossary: General Glossary: Welsh Place-name Elements General Index
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083477
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany written by Aubrey Burl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
