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This newly revised and enlarged fourth edition of Christopher Chippindale's prize-winning classic account brings the story of Stonehenge right up to date. It describes in two new chapters the startling ideas and insights of the latest field research. In a radical reinterpretation, Stonehenge with its cold rocks is seen as the place of the dead, and another site - over the horizon - as the place of the living, built in wood, and complete with houses and paved ways. In another theory, Stonehenge is a place of healing. Alongside the quest to understand Stonehenge are the taxing practicalities of caring for a 4,000 years old site that was never designed to cope with a million visitors a year, and how to preserve the monument for millennia to come. 'It would not be easy to name a better guide' - The Guardian 'Splendidly illustrated ... Will for years to come be a standard reference work' - The Times Literary Supplement 'All you ever wanted to know about Stonehenge...is catalogued in this humorously written, beautifully illustrated book' - The Economist
Contents
1. To the Medieval Eye • 2. In the age of Queen Elizabeth • 3. During the English Renaissance • 4. Dr Aubrey and Dr Stukeley • 5. A Delusion of Druids • 6. The Sublime and the Romantic • 7. The Making of Ancient Wiltshire • 8. Of Age, Evolution and Astronomy • 9. Victorian Visitors • 10. The Proprietor and His Public • 11. 1900 and After • 12. The Destruction of Half Stonehenge • 13. Wessex to Mycenae, and Back • 14. The Moon Behind the Megaliths • 15. Alternative Visions • 16. A Future for Stonehenge • 17. Stonehenge: A Basis of Knowledge • Visiting Stonehenge
