A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and BrittanyThis 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 |
Contents
PREFACE | 10 |
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
MAPS | 22 |
Cornwall 31 Cumberland 38 Derbyshire | 49 |
Devon 55 Dorset 67 Lancashire | 68 |
Northumberland 70 Oxfordshire | 72 |
Shropshire 74 Somerset 76 Westmorland | 80 |
Wiltshire 82 Yorkshire | 90 |
Moray 142 Mull 143 Orkney 145 Outer Hebrides Lewis 148 North Uist 152 Peeblesshire 153 Perthshire 153 Ross and Cromarty 166 | 166 |
Roxburghshire 166 Shetland 167 Skye 168 | 168 |
Sutherland 168 Tiree 170 Wigtownshire | 171 |
WALES | 172 |
Clwyd 172 Dyfed 172 Glamorgan 174 Gwent 174 Gwynedd 175 Powys 179 Ynys Mona | 184 |
REST OF UNITED KINGDOM CHANNEL ISLES Jersey | 187 |
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND | 211 |
FRANCE | 251 |
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Common terms and phrases
½ mile 2ins 3ins 4ins 5ins 6ft 6ins 7ins 8ins 9ins Aberdeenshire aligned avenue axis bank block Bodmin Moor boulders Brittany Bronze Age Burl cairn Callanish Carrowmore centre century chambered tomb charcoal circumference cist Clava cremated bone cromlech cupmarks Dartmoor diameter ditch druidical Druids Dunmanway east Easy ellipse entrance erected excavation fallen farm flanker flat-topped flint Four-Poster graded granite height henge Hill inside the ring Ireland kerbed lane low stones Map F megalithic Megalithic Yards midwinter miles sw Moor mound Neolithic north-east north-west northern O'Nuallain outlier oval passage-tomb pillar Plan portals prehistoric prostrate PSAS quartz rectangle recumbent stone circle ring-cairn road Rollright Stones sarsen Scotland sherds side slab slope small stones south-east south-west standing stones stone rows Stonehenge stones stand tall Thom track Walk western wide yards