A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany

Author(s)

• Burl, Aubrey

Bibliographic Information

A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany

Aubrey Burl

Yale University Press, c2005

Rev. ed

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 290-292

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA79788827
• ISBN:
  • 9780300114065
• LCCN: 2006023921
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven, Conn. ; London
• Pages/Volumes: 300 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN805
  • DC22 : 936.1/01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Stone circles -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
  • LCSH : Stone circles -- Ireland -- Guidebooks
  • LCSH : Stone circles -- France -- Brittany -- Guidebooks
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks
  • LCSH : Ireland -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks
  • LCSH : Brittany (France) -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks