Building the Great Stone Circles of the North / edited by Colin Richards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richards, Colin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone circles--Scotland.

Stone circles.

Megalithic monuments--Scotland.

Megalithic monuments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Havertown, Pennsylvania] : Windgather Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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 sto

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 architecturePart 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 PeopleChapter 12: Constructing through Discourse: the folklore of stone circles and standing stones in the Northern and Western Isles; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 31, 2015).

ISBN:

9781909686137

1909686131

9781909686151

1909686158