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How to Read Prehistoric Monuments
How to Read Prehistoric Monuments
A fascinating guide to the earthworks, henges and better-known standing stone sites of the British Isles – enabling you to ‘read’ the huge number of prehistoric monuments to be found all over the country
Hardback
272
pages
210 x 153 mm
ISBN
9781907486449
RRP: £14.99
Price: £13.49
03 March 2011
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How to Read Prehistoric Monuments offers the best possible insight into the vast range of earthworks, henges and standing stones whose creation predates written history. Describing all the principal monuments to be found in the British Isles and where specifically they are located, the book tells us as much as is known about the structures and what their purpose was, as well as offering additional, more in-depth coverage of specific sites that are either especially interesting or especially spectacular.
The main body of the book comprises an A–Z section which details all the prehistoric site types in the British Isles and explains what they are – for example, ‘Long Barrows’, ‘Standing Stones’ and ‘Fugues’. The book offers examples of where some of the structures in question can be found, with longitudes and latitudes so that the sites can be found either by means of a satellite navigation device or on a search engine like Google Earth.
The book includes profiles of a number of the sites that have particular interest to the tourist and amateur historian.
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