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“... cold. Pepys looked at the megaliths in 1668 and shrugged: ‘God knows what their use was.’ John Aubrey, the first person to make a serious study of stone circles, put his finger on the problem: ‘These Antiquities are so exceeding old that no Bookes doe reach them.’ He developed a more effective method. Using measurements and comparative surveys of ...”

“... like outright lunacy, now seems rather more respectable? The problem is posed in acute form by Aubrey Burl’s new book. Mr Burl is neither an amateur nor a loony: he is an acknowledged expert on stone circles. Here he turns to the social and religious realities that may lie behind the abundant evidence of strange ...”