Archaeology: Ever-Increasing Stone Circles
Keys, David, The Independent (London, England)
THE FIRST comprehensive survey of the world's largest series of prehistoric stone monuments has just been completed by a leading British archaeologist.
Dr Aubrey Burl has spent 20 years travelling more than 20,000 miles throughout Britain, Ireland and Brittany, in search of ancient stone circles and similar monuments, and has succeeded in tracking down some 2,200.
His detailed analysis of their design and geographical distribution is now shedding important new light on a 2,300-year-long period of British prehistory. Differing widely in size, the sites fall into four main categories - stone circles, stone avenues, stone rows and multiple stone rows.
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Article title: Archaeology: Ever-Increasing Stone Circles.
Contributors: Keys, David - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: March 8, 1994.
Page number: Not available.
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