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"This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic ""horseshoes"" of Brittany. This new edition includes a section on ""Druidical"" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ""This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company.""-Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology ""This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic.""-Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland"

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9780300114065

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Aubrey Burl was formerly Principal Lecturer in Archaeology, Hull College of Higher Education.

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