A Brief History of Stonehenge: A Complete History and Archaelogy of the World's Most Enigmatic Stone Circle Book

Note on Measurements     ix
List of Illustrations     xi
Acknowledgements     xv
Preface: The challenge     1
Introduction: Some questions     7
Antiquarians; recovering Stonehenge; to AD 1900     24
Excavations and repairs from Tudor times to AD 1949     55
Tombs in an empty land, 4200-3500 BC     82
The Cursus - racecourse or funeral path? c.3500-3000 BC     110
The beginnings of Stonehenge, c.3000 BC     132
Aubrey Holes and Grooved Ware, c.2800 BC and beyond     156
Bluestones and questions of the unlikely, c.2550 BC     181
The Four Stations stones - symbolism, not science, c.2500 BC     203
The Great Circle, c.2450 BC     222
The Avenue, portals, carvings and death, c.2400 BC     252
The Altar Stone, c.2400 BC onwards     278
The Archer and beyond, c.2300 BC     295
Ancient words along the Atlantic Fringe     307
Breton megalithic settings in Britain and Ireland     311
Alien carved motifs in Britain and Ireland     313
Abbreviations     317
Notes     319
Bibliography     341
Index     351