Ebook: The old stones: a field guide to the megalithic sites of Britain and Ireland

A Phenomenology of Shadow / Daniel Brown -- Icknield Way: Ancient Track or Medieval Fantasy? / Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews -- Must Farm: An Extraordinary Fenland Survival / Jackie Bates -- Chalk Artefacts / Anne Teather -- Insights from a Bronze Age Timber Circle / Andy Burnham -- North of England -- Propped Stones / David Shepherd -- Thornborough Archaeoastronomy / Andy Burnham -- Neolithic Sites in the Landscape / Cathryn Iliffe -- The Gypsey Race / Chris Collyer -- Stone Axes / Leslie Phillips -- Jack Morris-Eyton's Shadow Theory / David Smyth -- Prehistoric Rock Art in Britain and Ireland / Cezary Namirski -- Isle of Man -- Wales -- Translating Welsh Place Names / Stephen Rule -- Bancbryn Stone Row / Sandy Gerrard -- A Phenomenological Approach to Dolmens / Vicki Cummings -- Stonehenge and the Glacial Transport Theory / Brian John -- Healing Stones? The Preseli Bluestones / Julie Kearney -- Bringing the Neolithic Back to Life / Martyn Copcutt;Colour in the Monuments of Neolithic Europe / Penelope Foreman -- Scotland -- Stone Circles / John Barncrtt -- Dowsing at Cairn Holy / Angie Lake -- Hidden Evidence: The Lochbrow Project / Kirsty Millican -- Top 10 Urban Prehistory Sites / Kenneth Brophy -- The Lives of Stones / Anne Tate -- Investigating the Forteviot Ceremonial Landscape / Andy Burnham -- Archaeoastronomy in Western Scotland / Gail Higginbottom -- Carved Stone Balls / Julie Kearney -- Recumbent Stone Circles / Adam Welfare -- Skyscape Archaeology at Tomnaverie / Liz Henry -- What is the Lunar Standstill? / Vicky Tuckman -- The Song of the Low Moon / Grahame Gardner -- Excavations at the Ness of Brodgar / Andy Burnham -- An Early Neolithic House at Cat a Sand / Vicki Cummings -- Ireland -- Lithic Symbolism at Drombeg / Terence Meaden -- The Art of the Boyne Valley / Robert Hensey -- Modified Boulders of the Cavan Burren / Gaby Burns.;West of England -- Fighting Moorland Enclosure in Penwith / Ian McNeil Cooke -- Strange Experiences at Ancient Sites / Rune -- The Rough Tor Triangle: A Theory / Roy Gourte -- Under the Supermarket / Andy Burnham -- The Stone Rows of Dartmoor / Sandy Gerrard -- The Cist on Whitehorse Hill / Andy Burnham -- The Miniliths of Exmoor / Martyn Copcutt -- South of England -- Top 10 Pieces of Music Inspired by Prehistory / Andy Burnham -- Stonehenge: Model of a Geocentric Universe? / Jon Morris -- Stonehenge and the Neolithic Cosmos / N.D. Wiseman -- Feasting and Monument Building / Barney Harris -- Cat's Brain: A House for the Living? / Andy Burnham -- Development of the Avebury Landscape / Joshua Pollard -- Unique Transfigurative Rock Art? / Terence Meaden -- Archaeoacoustics / Steve Marshall -- Midlands & East of England -- Dorstone Hill: A Unique Configuration of Monuments / Andy Burnham -- Looking to the Land of the Ancestors / Vicky Tuckman;"This is the most comprehensive and thought-provoking field guide ever published to the iconic standing stones and prehistoric places of Britain and Ireland. The ultimate insiders' guide, it gives unparalleled insight into where to find prehistoric sites and how to understand them, by drawing on the knowledge, expertise and passion of the archaeologists, theorists, photographers and stones aficionados who contribute to the world's biggest megalithic website--the Megalithic Portal. Including over 30 maps and site plans and hundreds of colour photographs, it also contains scores of articles by a wide range of contributors, from archaeologists and archaeoastronomers to dowsers and geomancers, that will change the way you see these amazing survivals from our distant past. Locate over 1,000 of Britain and Ireland's most atmospheric prehistoric places, from recently discovered moorland circles to standing stones hidden in housing estates. Discover which sites could align with celestial bodies or horizon landmarks. Explore acoustic, colour and shadow theory to get inside the minds of the Neolithic and Bronze Age people who created these extraordinary places. Find out which sites have the most spectacular views, which are the best for getting away from it all and which have been immortalized in music."--Amazon.com.