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From Library Journal
British archaeologist Burl (A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany) has produced an academically rigorous book that can still be enjoyed by the lay reader. The first part examines legends that have been attached to a number of different prehistoric stone circles in Britain, such as the Rollright Stones and the circles at Stanton Drew in Somerset. Burl speculates on the origins of the stories and then uses fact to debunk them. The second part of the book is somewhat controversial and focuses on Stonehenge. It has long been argued that humans made an epic journey over hundreds of miles to get the bluestones used in its construction from southwest Wales to Salisbury Plain. Burl challenges this idea, methodically laying out his theory that glaciers carried the stones to the site. The third part of the book focuses on the construction of Swinside in Cumbria. Lavishly illustrated in both black and white and color, this is highly recommended for libraries where there is interest in the subject.AJohn Burch, Cumberland Coll. Lib., Williamsburg, KY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Scientific American
The ancient, haunting stone circles that dot the British countryside have had many explanations. As archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes wrote in 1967 of the most famous of them, "Every age has the Stonehenge it desires--or deserves." Burl, retired principal lecturer in archaeology at Hull College of Higher Education in Yorkshire, considers the fables, fictions and facts associated with 12 such sites and ventures his own explanations. Writing in particular of one of them, Swinside, at the southwest corner of the Lake District, but generalizing to all of them, he says: "So far from being 'rude stone monuments,' unplanned and casually thrown up; so far from being celestial observatories for astronomer-priests; these were centers of magical protection. Swinside was a perfection of the encircling landscape built in stone, a unity of the physical and the imagination, a symbol of the determination of man to survive against the threatening spirits that loomed everywhere, invisible, high, inhabiting and affecting the precarious and dangerous world of the sky."
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