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The Story of Stonehenge
Patricia Southern
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Description for The Story of Stonehenge
Paperback. A comprehensive history of the prehistoric megalithic structure at Stonehenge and those who built it. Num Pages: 192 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 52 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWW; HDDA; HDL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 230.
Stonehenge is the best-known but least understood prehistoric monument in the British Isles. Other stone circles are impressive and atmospheric, but none approach the sophistication of Stonehenge. The stones visible today represent the final phase of a monument that was begun about 5,000 years ago, and altered several times during the next fifteen centuries, before it was finally abandoned. The site may have been a sacred place for at least 10,000 years, reaching back to about 8,000 BC, when people of the Mesolithic era began to set up pine totem poles, the holes for which were found in excavations close ... Read more
Stonehenge is the best-known but least understood prehistoric monument in the British Isles. Other stone circles are impressive and atmospheric, but none approach the sophistication of Stonehenge. The stones visible today represent the final phase of a monument that was begun about 5,000 years ago, and altered several times during the next fifteen centuries, before it was finally abandoned. The site may have been a sacred place for at least 10,000 years, reaching back to about 8,000 BC, when people of the Mesolithic era began to set up pine totem poles, the holes for which were found in excavations close ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445619002
SKU
V9781445619002
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99-99
About Patricia Southern
Patricia Southern is an acknowledged expert on the history of ancient Rome. While working full time as a librarian she studied for a BA degree in Ancient History with the external department of the University of London, and for an MPhil in Roman Frontier Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was Librarian of the Archaeology Department ... Read more
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