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Title Building the Great Stone Circles of the North
Published Macclesfield : Windgather Press, 2013
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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Building the Great Stone Circles of the North -- Chapter 1: Interpreting Stone Circles -- Chapter 2: Monuments in the Making: the stone circles of western Scotland -- Part 2: Stone Circles in Orkney -- Chapter 3: Wrapping the Hearth: constructing house societies and the tall Stones of Stenness, Orkney -- Chapter 4: Investigating the Great Ring of Brodgar, Orkney -- Chapter 5: Monumental Risk: megalithic quarrying at Staneyhill and Vestra Fiold, Mainland, Orkney -- Chapter 6: Surface over Substance: the Vestra Fiold horned cairn, Mainland, Setter cairn, Eday, and a reappraisal of late Neolithic funerary architecture -- Part 3: Stone Circles in the Outer Hebrides -- Chapter 7: The Peristalith and the Context of Calanais: transformational architecture in the Hebridean early Neolithic -- Chapter 8: Erecting Stone Circles in a Hebridean Landscape -- Chapter 9: Expedient Monumentality: Na Dromannan and the high stone circles of Calanais, Lewis -- Chapter 10: The Sanctity of Crags: mythopraxis, transformation and the Calanais low circles -- Chapter 11: A Time for Stone Circles, a Time for New People -- Chapter 12: Constructing through Discourse: the folklore of stone circles and standing stones in the Northern and Western Isles -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Antiquities
Social archaeology -- Great Britain
Stone circles -- Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Richards, Colin, 1953- editor.
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