Table of Contents

Illustrations
Illustration Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Monuments in the Landscape
2 Pagan Traditions
3 The Church and the Devil
4 In Medieval Literature
5 The Wonder of Britain
6 John Aubrey and Friends
7 William Stukeley
8 William Borlase
9 Romantic Druids and the Picturesque
10 Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington
11 The Barrow Diggers
12 Stone Age Circles and Stone Age Man
13 Diffusionism
14 Megalith Builders
15 Beaker Folk
16 Stonehenge and the Wessex Culture
17 The Sun and the Stars
18 Sir Norman Lockyer and his Followers
19 Stonehenge Decoded
20 Pi and Pythagorean Thoughts
21 Alfred Watkins and the Old Straight Track
22 John Michell and The View over Atlantis
23 Mysterious Britain
24 Earth Mysteries
25 Radiocarbon and other Revolutions
26 Sex and the Dead
27 Landscape, Culture, Society
28 Epilogue
Gazetteer
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Richard Hayman is an archaeologist and architectural historian who writes on the history of the British landscape. His other books include Riddles in Stone: Myths, Archaeology and the Ancient Britons.