The enigma of Stonehenge /
Stonehenge
- Toronto : Collins, 1980.
- 126 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 27 cm.
Signed on lining page "D.S. Richardson"
"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
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Megalithic monuments--England--Wiltshire. Historic Architecture--England Stone monuments.--Neolithic.