Download or read book A Cairn of Small Stones written by John Watts and published by Ovada Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tale of the West Highlands in the 18th century, told as the autobiography of a tenant farmer of North Morar.
Download or read book A Cairn of Small Stones written by John Watts and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small stone cairn Pages Creek written by Percy J. Gresser and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief description of cairn, easterly upper branches of Mooney Mooney Creek.
Download or read book Cairns written by David B. Williams and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Download the first section from Cairns now. (Provide us with a little information and we'll send the free section directly to your inbox!) Praise for author David B. Williams: “Makes stones sing” --Kirkus Reviews “Williams’s lively mixture of hard science and piquant lore is sure to fire the readers’ curiosity” --Publisher’s Weekly *Part history, part folklore, part geology * Features charming black-and-white illustrations From meadow trails to airy mountaintops and wide open desert, cairns -- those seemingly random stacks of rocks -- are surprisingly rich in stories and meaning. For thousands of years cairns have been used by people to connect to the landscape and communicate with others, and are often an essential guide to travelers. Cairns, manmade rock piles can indicate a trail, mark a grave, serve as an altar or shrine, reveal property boundaries or sacred hunting grounds, and even predict astronomical activity. The Inuit have more than two dozen terms to describe cairns and their uses! In Cairns: Messengers in Stone, geologist and acclaimed nature writer David B. Williams (Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology) explores the history of cairns from the moors of Scotland to the peaks of the Himalaya -- where they come from, what they mean, why they’re used, how to make cairns, and more. Cairns are so much more than a random pile of rocks, knowing how to make cairns can drastically alter the meaning of the formation. Hikers, climbers, travelers, gardeners, and nature buffs alike will delight in this quirky, captivating collection of stories about cairns.
Download or read book An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments with the Report of the Commission written by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hill Forts Stone Circles and Other Structural Remains of Ancient Scotland written by Christian Maclagan and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeologia Cambrensis written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting Landscapes written by Christopher Tilley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines role of landscape in phenomenological study of ancient Britain.
Download or read book Barra written by Patrick Foster and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past six years a team of archaeologists, historians and environmental scientists from the University of Sheffield explored the island of Barra.They have discovered and recorded many hundreds of previously unknown sites and monuments, excavated selected examples, and carried out extensive environmental sampling and laboratory based analysis of all this evidence. The first volume of reports focuses on the wild and rocky peninsula of Tangaval at the south-western corner of the island. In this seemingly inhospitable place, on the westernmost margin of Europe, perched on the very edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the team have discovered almost 250 sites and monuments. They range from the first rock-shelter and occupation huts of the earliest settlers around 4000 BC to the abandoned settlements from which Macneils sailed to new homes in America and Australasia in the mid-nineteenth century BC.
Download or read book The Dolmens of Ireland written by William Copeland Borlase and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor Ancient and Modern written by James O'Laverty and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by Royal Irish Academy and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year (beginning 1965/66 called Annual report).
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by Royal Irish Academy (Dublin). and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of America s Stonehenge written by Mary E. Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main complex of the America’s Stonehenge site in New Hampshire is a collection of stone chambers, enclosures, niches, standing stones, carved drains & basins, and astronomical alignments. The archaeological community has largely dismissed this seemly eclectic collection of structures as the work of an eccentric farmer named Jonathan Pattee who built his house on top of the ruins in the 19th century. Other researchers have sought to compare the chambers and astronomical alignments to stone structures from around the world built by other ancient peoples. No one has thought to evaluate the site on its own merits, specifically evaluating its architecture. Architecture can tell you a lot about a culture. Using this approach the author unravels the mystery surrounding the site. This architectural study revealed the site was built in a series of distinct phases each with its own unique style while at the same time incorporating key concepts and ideas from previous phases. There is a clear evolution of building skills and cultural ideas that can be followed through the architectural build-out of the site. Because key features and ideas were carried forward from one phase to the next, we now know that the site was the work of a single culture over a several thousand year period. Stone tools and pottery recovered from archaeological excavations at the site confirm that the builders were Native Americans. The idea of Native Americans building stone structures for ceremonial and spiritual purposes has gained a lot of credibility over the past twenty-five years. There is mounting evidence that hundreds of ceremonial stone landscapes (CSL) with stone cairns, niches, enclosures, standings stones, chambers and astronomical alignments found throughout northeastern United States are part of a broad based Native American cultural tradition. The America’s Stonehenge site is one of the most sophisticated and culturally complex of these sacred ceremonial places. The second part of this book uses primary source materials like deeds, town records, court cases and genealogy to reconstruct the history of the Pattee family who owned the hill where the site is found from 1739 through 1863. The Pattees started out in the 1700s as a prosperous family with a house in North Salem village and a 248 acre farm. By the 1820s, the third generation was reduced to owning 15 acres of the original farm and living in a small house built on top of the ruins of the site. Despite his many financial misfortunes, Jonathan Pattee (third generation) managed to hold on to and protect the site.
Download or read book The Stone Circles of Britain Ireland and Brittany written by Aubrey Burl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
Download or read book The Book of Summoning written by Ian Corrigan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pagan System of Evocation The Book of Summoning presents a practical system based in the forms and structures of the grimoires, empowered by the gods and spirits of Pagan ways. There are no 'angels' or 'demons', only the spirits, who are approached in a respectful and careful way, without coercion or threat. Based in the work of the Nine Moons system, it includes: - The Hearth Cult, The Year Cult and the Sorcerer's Cult - Beyond Angels and Demons - Toward A Pagan Spiritology - The Hosting of the Sidhe - The Teacher & the Familiar - the Spirit Allies - The Sorcerer's Sacrifice - a Rite of Alliance & Empowerment Ian Corrigan has been learning and teaching in the Pagan community for over 30 years. He is an Archdruid Emeritus and a Senior Priest of Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF), who worked with Isaac Bonewits in the creation of that Pagan Druidic system, and is a primary author of ADF's basic Pagan training.
