A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany - Softcover

Burl, Aubrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300114060 ISBN 13: 9780300114065

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This 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

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Review:

'[Aubrey Burl] has provided restrained, tempered yet incisive and scientific insights into prehistory's most enigmatic monumnet types.' -- Tom Condit, Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2005

Synopsis:

From Stonehenge to Callanish, from Newgrange to Er-Lannic, great prehistoric stone circles have drawn thousands of admiring visitors to their sites every year. This practical guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic 'horseshoes' of Brittany. Featuring information, useful maps and more than 70 photographs, this is a resource for those interested in the mysteries of the ancient sanctuaries known as stone circles. This new edition will include a section on 'Druidical' circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300114060
• ISBN 13: 9780300114065
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 292