Title: Building the great stone circles of the north /
Authors: Richards, Colin, 1953-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Stone circles Great Britain.; History.; Kromlech.; Antiquities; Stone circles; Great Britain Antiquities.; Schottland; Great Britain
Contents: Interpreting stone circles / Colin Richards -- Monuments in the making: the stone circles of western Scotland / Colin Richards and Joanna Wright -- Wrapping the hearth: constructing house societies and the tall stones of Stenness, Orkney / Colin Richards -- Investigating the great ring of Brodgar, Orkney / Jane Downes, Colin Richards, John Brown, A. J. Cresswell, R. Ellen, A. D. Davies, Allan Hall, Robert McCulloch, David C. W. Sanderson and Ian A. Simpson -- Monumental risk: megalithic quarrying at Staneyhill and Vestra Fiold, Mainland, Orkney / Colin Richards, John Brown, Siân Jones, Allan Hall and Tom Muir -- Surface over substance: the Vestra Fiold horned cairn, Mainland, setter cairn, Eday, and a reappraisal of late Neolithic funerary architecture / Colin Richards, Jane Downes, Ellen Hambleton, Rick Perterson and Joshua Pollard -- The Peristalith and the context of Calanais: transformational architecture in the Hebridean early Neolithic / Vicki Cummings and Colin Richards -- Erecting stone circles in a Hebridean landscape / Colin Richards, Adrian Challands and Kate Welham -- Expedient monumentality: Na Dromannan and the high stone circles of Calanais, Lewis / Colin Richards, George Demetri, Charles French, Robert Nunn, Rebecca Rennell, Mairi Robertson and Lee Wellerman -- The sanctity of Crags: mythopraxis, transformation and the Calanais low circles / Colin Richards -- A time for stone circles, a time for new people / Seren Griffiths and Colin Richards -- Constructing through discourse: the folklore of stone circles and standing stones / Tom Muir and Colin Richards.