Stonehenge is the most famous megalithic structure in the world. Instantly recognisable but infinitely mysterious, nobody knows what it was or why it was built.
In trying to find the answers each succeeding century has rebuilt the stones in its own image, making them by turns romantic, scientific, counter cultural. Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and the latest archaeological theories, it has been invoked by town planners, analysed by astronomers abd become the spiritual home of the Druids. The legend of the stones has travelled through space and time until they can be found in many places far from Salisbury Plain. There are replicas from New Zealand to Nebraska. Their spirit haunts William Blakes Jerusalem and they can be glimpsed, if you know what to look for, at Piccadilly Circus.
Rosemary Hill makes no attempt to solve the enigma of Stonehenge. What it meant to its creators we can never know. This is a book about what it has meant to u, through recorded history, and what it means today when, after more than five thousand years, its future is once again in doubt.
(Approx. 242 pages, hardback)
