Stonehenge

Once part of a large culture of stone circles, Stonehengebuilt around 3000 B.C. and developed over the next 1,500 yearsis the most famous. The remains of a oncewealthy and evidently learned tribal community, it reflects the apparently disparate subjects of archaeology, astronomy, metrology, sacred geometry, and even shamanism. How were eclipses predicted at Stonehenge Why were some stones brought all the way from Wales What is the secret geometry of seven eights These and many other questions are answeredand Stonehenges secrets revealedin this fascinating small book.

• The 1973 Thom survey of Stonehenge
• stonehenge written illustrated by Robin Heath First published 2000 AD Revised edition Wooden Books
• To Rebecca, Matthew and Lea. Pictures have been taken from a wide selection of rare antiquarian book
• 1 IntroductIon Stonehenge is Britains national temple. Attracting almost one million visitors a yea
• 3 2 circles was being revealed, not always with the blessing or agreement of orthodox archaeologists
• 5 4 dIggIng In the dark the rediscovery of Stonehenge Ever since the end of the Dark Ages, descripti
• 7 6 the Stonehenge LandScape the remains on the plain Stonehenge forms the centrepiece of a rich her
• 9 8 The Stonehenge landscape includes many examples of what are known as barrows opposite. Many of
• 11 10 Stonehenge cuLture artefacts from the past What little we know about the people who built Ston
• 13 12 BarrowLoadS of goLd a ninefold astronomical lozenge At the Bush Barrow, an early Bronze Age si
• 15 14 aStronomy geometry a prehistoric culture of circle builders In 1973 Alexander Thom undertook
• 17 16 the fIrSt Stonehenge an implosion over 1500 years Stonehenges concentric circles of stones and
• 19 18 Around 3000 BC, the circle of 56 Aubrey holes was dug, some think to provide sockets to house
• 21 20 Around 2600 BC the famous Sarsen Circle was constructed, with its unique level circle of raise
• 23 22 woodwork In Stone how to do joined up megaliths The perfectly level circle of thirty curved s
• 25 24 erectIng the StoneS the fine art of levitating lintels Fetching 50 ton sarsen stones from Fyfi
• 27 26 the modern pIcture our semiruinous legacy The construction of Stonehenge began around 3150 BC
• 29 28 the ghoSt In the machIne reading the stones So just what have we got here on Salisbury Plain
• 31 30 here comeS the Sun the famous midsummer alignment At the latitude of Stonehenge, the annual ra
• 33 32 woodhenge another midsummer alignment Just down the road, two miles to the northeast of Stoneh
• 35 34 caLendar caperS the reasons for the seasons At Stonehenge, in the numbers of stones and their
• 37 36 aLternatIve Stonehenge the loony fringe of dotty archaeology Stonehenge has always attracted s
• 39 38 the LunatIon trIangLe the marriage of the Sun and Moon One longlost geometrical technique fo
• 41 40 Anyone who has tried to make a model of how the Sun and Moon move around the sky will end up,
• 43 42 Stonehenge compLete not just a load of old lintels Ever since the midsummer axis was first spo
• 45 44 roLLIng StoneS the art of long distance megalith moving The huge sarsen stones, weighing up to
• 47 46 the mIddLe ground the stones at the centre With nearly one million visitors a year, the monume
• 49 48 Sacred geometry how to build a temple The megalithic architects were researching into geometry
• 51 50 SurveyIng the cIrcLe three centuries of enquiry Jones
• 53 52 Stonehenge dwarfed Avebury, the worlds largest stone circle The huge sarsen stone circle at Av
• 55 54 Star cuLture high spirits in the night sky Before Stonehenge and the start of the Neolithic, t
• 57 56 InSpIratIonaL Stonehenge a source of wonder and amazement Stonehenge may elude us, but it also
• Further reading Sun, Moon Earth by Robin Heath Wooden Books, 1999 A Guide to the Stone Circles of B