The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Illustrations : b/w text figs
Description:
Explores the spectacular stones circles of western Europe, their ancestry, methods of construction and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of the author's highly praised book The Stone Circles of the British Isles (1976), 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, and includes a greatly expanded gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
Condition
Vg in d/w. Small light label mark to endpaper. Minor dent to rear cover.