Buy this book on-line BARNATT, JOHN: : PREHISTORIC CORNWALL: The Ceremonial MonumentsUK.WELLINGBOROUGH,NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.TURNSTONE PRESS LIMITED,1982. ISBN 0855001291.
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A field guide to and analysis of Cornish stone circles,chambered tombs,barrows,standing stones and other ancient monuments.This is probably the most comprehensive field guide to and explanation of the prehistoric ceremonial monuments of Cornwall yet published (then 1982). It provides complete details regarding the location and disposition of the county's prehistoric remains and in addition offers an overview of prehistoric structures in general and an explanation of their original functions based on the latest orthodox and alternative archaeological thought.
This detailed and intensively researched guide sets out to describe the major ceremonial sites of the prehistoric era in Cornwall,which is particularly rich in impressive monuments of all kinds.
John Barnatt has painstakingly visited every Cornish monument and his survey offers fascinating insights into a time when man exerted more effort on erecting ceremonial monuments than on his dwellings.He debates at length the arguments for and against the geometric and astronomical functions of stone circles and discusses the ley line theory in relation to menhirs.
Copiously illustrated with maps and photographs,this comprehensive field guide will appeal to both specialist and holiday visitor alike,indeed to anyone who has fallen under the spell of the Cornish landscape.
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