Henge Monuments: Ceremony and Society in Prehistoric Britain

by Geoffrey Wainwright

Explains what recent excavations reveal about ancient henges and the society that built them

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Ulrike · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved this :) took a good long time with it because work has been killing me so i don't think i quite got the full effect but another interesting book about prehistoric britain yay i love prehistoric britain !!! i do wish there had been a bit more postulating about the ceremony and the society and the day to day life of people back then. so happy to see the drawings of the different stages of stonehenge though ive been looking for something like that!

[Benjamin Jeffrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic book looking at the formation of 5 Bronze Age monuments. With detailed description of the construction and materials used to make it with hypothesis of what they could have been and the function of their use. This book takes a forensic look at the landscape and construction of the sites of Avebury, Durrington Walls, Marden, Mount Pleasant and Stonehenge looking at the human labour force used to construct them, materials which give dates to the erecting of certain phases and the societies that these monuments represented. The illustrations are great to give you a detailed look at the size and infrastructure of the monuments.