Stonehenge & Timber CirclesPraised by The Archaeologist as "a very readable and stimulating review," the author's ground-breaking study of 1998 is brought up-to-date in the light of the latest archaeological evidence. The author shows how Stonehenge can help us to understand the Neolithic and Bronze Age timber circles of Britain and Ireland, and how these timber circles aid our understanding of Stonehenge. He attempts their reconstruction, discusses their possible usages and functions, and describes how rituals may have changed through time. The relationship of timber circles with henges and stone circles is also explored. |
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aerial photographs appears Arminghall arrowheads artefacts Aubrey holes avenue Balfarg Ballynahatty bank Bargeroosterveld Beaker Bleasdale bluestone British burial Burl cardinally orientated causeway central pit centre ceramic circle at Sarn-y-bryn-caled circle of posts circular Cleal Collared Urn colour plate complex comprising Context Dating cremation Cunnington cursus Dating Dimensions deposition Description Single circle diameter References Name Dorchester Dorchester-on-Thames double circle Durrington Walls earlier early Bronze Age entrance evidence example excavation flint Food Vessel Grooved Ware Haughey's Fort henge monument horseshoe inner circle interpreted Iron Age Knowth late Neolithic later lintels Machrie Moor Milfield North multiple circle Navan Neolithic Newgrange North Mains outer circle oval palisaded enclosure Peterborough Ware phase pit circle Plan postholes posts References posts set pottery Powys radiocarbon dates reconstruction References Name NGR ritual roof round barrow Sanctuary sarsen sherds Southern Circle stone circle Stonehenge structure suggest tenon terminus timber circles West Kennet Wiltshire Woodhenge