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Stonehenge complete / Christopher Chippendale.

by Chippindale, Christopher, 1951-

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Thames & Hudson, 2012.

Megalithic monuments -- England -- Wiltshire.

Antiquities, Prehistoric -- England -- Wiltshire.

Cultural property -- England -- Wiltshire.

Stonehenge (England)

Wiltshire (England) -- Antiquities.

9780500289662 (pbk.)

320 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-314) and index.

1. To the medieval eye -- 2. In the age of Queen Elizabeth -- 3. During the English Renaissance -- 4. Mr Aubrey and Dr Stukeley -- 5. A delusion of Druids -- 6. The sublime and the romantic -- 7. The making of Àncient Wiltshire' -- 8. Of age, evolution and astronomy -- 9. Victorian visitors -- 10. The proprietor and his public -- 11. 1900 and after -- 12. The destruction of half Stonehenge -- 13. Wessex to Mycenae, and back -- 14. The moon behind the megaliths -- 15. Alternative visions -- 16. A future for Stonehenge -- 17. Stonehenge: a basis of knowledge.

Since its prize-winning first edition, Christopher Chippindale's book has established itself as the classic account of this most famous of ancient places. This fourth edition describes in two new chapters the startling ideas and insights of the latest field research. In a radical reinterpretation, Stonehenge with its cold rocks is seen as the place of the dead, and another site, over the horizon, as the place of the living, built in wood, and complete with houses and paved ways. In another theory, Stonehenge is a place of healing. Alongside the quest to understand the ancient place are the taxing practicalities of caring for a monument that is 4,000 years old, and never designed to cope with a million visitors a year. Preserving Stonehenge for the millennia to come.

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