A very short pre-history -- Contending with oblivion : the antiquaries -- Art, order, proportion : the architects -- "Cold ston'y horror" : the romantics -- The age of Darwin -- Archaeology, astronomy and the age of Aquarius -- The new millennium
Summary
Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today
