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Square 4to. 9.5 x 11 inches. [viii] + 199 + [1] pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has a few chips on top edge; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated throughout by 55 colour, including frontispiece and section headings and black and white photographs and by 25 text figures, including maps and plans. A close examination of a selection of attractive and evocative circles, by the archaeologist, Aubrey Burl (b.1926), author of the standard systematic work on on megalithic stone circles. The three parts of the book examine the Fables, Fictions and Facts of eight circles, Stonehenge and The Making of a Stone Circle (Swinside, Cumbria).