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A really interesting book by a sometime-Lamorna based painter, Dadaist and Crowley/Golden Dawn associate. Seems to begin disappointingly as a standard 'arty type donwshifts' work, but gets into its stride with a personal search for (at the time) forgotten wells and water sources; animism, and theories of stone and stone circles. Meandering and personal, but one of the odder fringe books to touch upon megalithic culture.
Very out of print, but worth a pop.


Chris :)

Good to see you back again Chris, and thanks for the link. Also, remember this?

"Scarre reminds us of the inconceivable labour involved in the structures that continue to amaze after four or more millennia. The construction of the enclosures around Avebury required the quarrying of 200,000 tonnes of chalk, but this was dwarfed by the labour demands of Silbury Hill. Containing a third of a million cubic metres of chalk, the great mound is now thought to have originally been a straight-sided polyhedron with up to nine walls. Scarre also reveals new theories concerning Stonehenge, where the surface shaping of some of the stones may have replicated the bark of oak and beech. The great ring could have been a monument for the dead that imitated the wooden dwellings of the living."*

* http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/paperbacks-the-megalithic-monuments-of-britain-and-irelandbrfatal-puritybrthe-big-oysterbrthe-judgement-of-parisbrthe-last-mughalbrthe-emperors-childrenbrmy-fathers-notebook-445381.html