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Great Crowns of Stone: The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland电子书

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作       者:Adam Welfare

出  版  社:Historic Environment Scotland

出版时间:2011-01-20

字       数:145.7万

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Stone circles are among the most spectacular surviving ancient structures you could ever hope to visit. Silhouetted on a skyline, they dominate the landscape for miles around, presenting a range of architectural devices that draw the visitor to confront a massive horizontal slab placed between two pillars on a southern arc. These recumbent slabs - altar stones in popular folklore - are doorways to another world, to the people who farmed the landscape some 4,000 years ago. While some circles have suffered grievously - plundered of their stones and ploughed up in the 18th and 19th centuries - their enigmatic legacies continue to excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated by unique plans and photographs, Great Crowns of Ston e draws on the work of antiquarians and over ten years of the most recent archaeological research to examine the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
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Cover

Plan Conventions

Dedication

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene

Terminology

Classification

Recumbent Stone Circles in Popular Imagination

Research Themes of the Present Survey

Chapter 2: Survival and Distribution

Recognising the Damage

Patterns of Loss

Protest and Protection

Physical Setting

Contemporary Landscape

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Architecture

Topographical Setting

Cairns

Formal Ring-Cairns

Buchan Rings

Platforms

The Ring

The Recumbent Setting

The Recumbent

The Flankers

The Orthostats

Cupmarks

Outlying Monoliths

Chapter 4: Contents and Chronology

Pyres and Burning

After the Fire

Pits and Burials within the Circle

Beyond the Curtilage

Circular Timber Buildings

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Aesthetics and Design

Colour and Texture

Geometry

Conclusion

Chapter 6: Orientation

The Archaeoastronomical Hypothesis

Framing and Mirroring

Critique and Review

Conclusion

Chapter 7: Genesis, Metaphor and Symbolism

The Seeds of Change

Literal Versus Metaphor

Architectural Analogy

Evolution and Diffusion

Composite Origins

Audit and Re-Evaluation

The Waning Diffusionist Model

Aubrey Burl and the Lunar Hypothesis

New Perspectives

The Past in the Early Bronze Age Present

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Gazetteer: Gazetteer of Recumbent Stone Circles

Appendix 1: Other Monuments Sometimes Claimed as Recumbent Stone Circles

Appendix 2: Lost Records Relating to Recumbent Stone Circles

Appendix 3: Measurements of the Stones Denoted on the Plans of Recumbent Stone Circles

Appendix 4: Values for the Orientations Denoted in the Figures

Appendix 5: Calibrated Radiocarbon Dates of the Recumbent Stone Circles

Bibliography

Alternative Names

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