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The enigma of Stonehenge /

By:

Fowles, John, 1926-2005

Contributor(s):

Brukoff, Barry

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Collins, 1980.Description: 126 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 27 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0002166194

Other title:

Stonehenge

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

DA142 .F69 1980

Summary: "The mute, enigmatic stone in Wiltshire reveal as much about those who have tried to fathom their secrets as about those who constructed them. If we can now say with twentieth-century archaeological certainty that the first wooden phase of Stonehenge was begun by Neolithic settlers in 2800 B.C., we can also say that well into the eighteenth century, elixirs made of ground bits of Stonehenge were a popular medicine. if the seventeenth century saw the dawn of serious archaeology, it found Inigo Jones as certain that Stonehenge was Roman as was Dr Charleton that it was Danish, while Aubrey and Stukeley proffered a theory that caught on for two centuries (and still draws white-robed believers to the site at the midsummer solstice). For them Stonehenge was a Temple of the Druids." - From the Jacket

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	DA142 .F69 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001261

Signed on lining page "D.S. Richardson"

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