William Stukeley (1667-1765), one of the first to conduct fieldwork at Stonehenge and to recognize its historic importance, meticulously recorded his findings in a manuscript that has remained unpublished for hundreds of years. That manuscript is transcribed here, accompanied by detailed annotations that confirm the value of Stukeley's archaeological research and set it apart from his later unsustainable theories and obsessions with Druids. Trained as a medical doctor, Stukeley's interests were antiquarian and ...
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William Stukeley (1667-1765), one of the first to conduct fieldwork at Stonehenge and to recognize its historic importance, meticulously recorded his findings in a manuscript that has remained unpublished for hundreds of years. That manuscript is transcribed here, accompanied by detailed annotations that confirm the value of Stukeley's archaeological research and set it apart from his later unsustainable theories and obsessions with Druids. Trained as a medical doctor, Stukeley's interests were antiquarian and archaeological, with a particular enthusiasm for evidence of early sacred ritual. His Stonehenge field notes include careful measurements, drawings, and plans as well as original analyses and remarkable discoveries, among them the enigmatic cursus which no one before him had seen. Stukeley's manuscript provides a fascinating review of what could be said of the stone circle and its landscape in the early eighteenth century.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. viii, 164pp, index, bibliography, references, notes, appendices, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. Transcribed and annotated manuscript giving a fascinating insight into what was known, and speculated, about Stonehenge in the 18th century.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings, reproductions of works of art and maps.
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VG. Black cloth over boards; Green illus. dj.; 164 pp.; 10 bw plates, numerous bw figures. A previously unpublished manuscript by William Stukeley, one of the first people to conduct field work at Stonehenge; Includes measurements and drawings, as well as Stukeley's notes and analyses.
