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	Aubrey Burl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aubrey Burl is a British archaeologist most well known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them.
		Burl's work has often explored the astronomical roles of many megalithic monuments but he has been cautious of embracing the more tenuous claims of archaeoastronomy.
		His straightforward approach led him to question what he sees as the over-romanticised view that Stonehenge was built from bluestones hauled by hand from the Preseli Hills in south west Wales to Salisbury Plain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aubrey_Burl (220 words)

	Books \| Wholly Roman empire
		Aubrey Burl's spirited Catullus is the latest attempt to write an entire romantic biography of the poet out of supposition.
		Burl says that Poem 49, addressed to Cicero, is a sarcastic "thank you" to the advocate for his vicious attacks on Clodia's name at the trial of Caelius.
		Again, Burl says that the obscene Poem 78b refers to Clodius's incest with his sister but there is no evidence for that either.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4842450-110738,00.html (957 words)

	The French Built Stonehenge?
		Aubrey Burl, author of numerous books on prehistoric stone monuments, says that several design features and carvings on one of the stones show clear links to megalithic sites in Brittany.
		Burl draws further support for his argument from a carving at Stonehenge with an irregular, box-like shape that resembles Breton images of female guardians of the dead.
		Finally, Burl points out that four stones standing in a rectangular configuration at the monument's periphery are aligned to sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the Celtic festival of Beltene (about May 1), loosely paralleling a megalithic site at Crucuno in Brittany.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/9707/newsbriefs/stonehenge.html (413 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		Burl believes that if humans were to have carried these stones all the way from these mountains, they would have only taken the good stones.
		Lastly, Burl suggests that good bluestone was found in the vicinity of Stonehenge thousands of years before the monument was ever began -- suggesting the rock was already in the area.
		John Aubrey, a 17th century British antiquary, was the first to suggest that the druids were the ones who built Stonehenge -- a theory which has since been discounted.
	www.exn.ca /mysticplaces/Construction.cfm (2022 words)

	Rethinking the great stone circles of Northwest Britain - Colin Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As the quote from Aubrey Burl's The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany so aptly reveals, such questions are not restricted to the visitors alone but still appear to confound archaeological enquiry.
		Aubrey Burl identifies a possible source for these stones at Auchencar, situated c.
		Fieldwork for this phase of the project is scheduled for 2005, but in the absence of a more detailed picture it is clear that yet a different process is at work on Arran with the exploitation of a single source for the red sandstone monoliths.
	www.orkneydigs.org.uk /dhl/papers/cr (5755 words)

	Expert About bu:Burl
		Most people think of burl as the "sliced redwood" sold in gift shops and roadside stands, but they do not realize that many of these burls were obtained illegally.
		Burls can be planted under the appropriate conditions to allow the shoots to form roots and then grow into trees, but the typical buyer of a redwood burl places it in water, watches the shoots grow, then disposes of it after the shoots die from lack of nutrients.
		Burl came home one day and said, "Eddie, there's a family living in a box car and they just came from the dust bowl (this was in the late 30s).
	expertsite.biz /dir/bu/burl.htm (1370 words)

	Aubrey Burl -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aubrey Burl is a British (An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture) archaeologist most well known for his studies into (additional info and facts about megalithic monument) megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric (Any customary observance or practice) rituals associated with them.
		Burl's work has often explored the astronomical roles of many megalithic monuments but he has been cautious of embracing the more tenuous claims of (additional info and facts about archaeoastronomy) archaeoastronomy.
		Instead, he argues, the stones were left close to the site by earlier (A slowly moving mass of ice) glaciers and then exploited by the monument's builders.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/aubrey_burl.htm (214 words)

	Amazon.com: Great Stone Circles : Fables, Fictions, Facts: Books: Aubrey Burl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Burl is among the leaders of scholars studying the stone and wood monuments scattered about the British Isles.
		Burl argues that the lithic evidence indicates woodworking techniques were used to form the rocks of Stonehenge.
		Burl attempts to clarify many issues ["axes to grind" if you will], most particularly the astronomical orientations of many of the stone circles, and their means of construction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300076894?v=glance (1916 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But he is a connoisseur of regret and revenge, of betrayal and unrequited love, a writer whose insecurities that are balanced by a faith in the protective powers of the poetic abilities that served him so well throughout a brief but busy life.
		Aubrey Burl’s introduction to this enthralling and occasionally capricious book surmises that the collected works perished in the flames at the library at Alexandria in 47 BC.
		Burl flavours his own dismissal of the literary scene with phrases like “turgid monstrosity”, “another vapid buffoon” and “untalented rhymester”.
	www.newhumanist.org.uk /printarticle.php?id=482_0_25_0_C (654 words)

	Causewayed enclosure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French examples begin to demonstrate elaborate horn-shaped entrances which are interpreted by their excavators as being designed to impress from afar rather than serve any practical purpose.
		Aubrey Burl considers that causewayed enclosure building decayed by 3000 BC with examples of more localised types of earthworks monuments replacing them.
		Examples in Britain include Stonehenge I, Flagstones, Duggleby Howe and Ring of Bookan, monuments which seem to have been predecessors of the later henge monuments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Causewayed_enclosure (641 words)

	British Archaeology, no 47, September 1999: Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sir: Glacial transport of the bluestones is less plausible than Aubrey Burl suggests (`Glaciers and the bluestones of Wales', June).
		Burl observes in his book, Great Stone Circles, when comparing the transportation of the bluestones and the Stonehenge sarsens, that the latter task was `much easier because the journey was all across dryland'.
		Sir: Aubrey Burl refers to Preseli bluestone erratics on the Bristol Channel islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holme.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba47/ba47lets.html (781 words)

	Keynsham Online : Shop : Books : The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
		Aubrey Burl's previous works were showing a wee bit of dating.
		While Burl's previous works were amazing, this long awaited "update" of this information, as well as addition information on more recent excavations make this is must.
		Aubrey Burl has the credentials and credibility to author this, the best reference to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany, with gusto.
	www.keynsham.co.uk /shop/ItemDetail0300083475.html (713 words)

	British Archaeology magazine 58, April 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But far more important is Burl's unparalleled sensitivity, within archaeology, to the rich vocabulary and cadences of the English language, and his fastidious ability to discriminate between interesting and uninteresting information.
		Admirable also in the best work is his appreciation of colour, ensuring that all the colours in the image work together - a surprisingly rare accomplishment in colour landscape photography where a reliance on clichéd warm sunlight and super-saturated colour filmstock is the norm.
		Burl has done more than anyone to ensure that the astronomical alignments of stone circles are taken seriously.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba58/book.shtml (2485 words)

	William Stukeley
		Aubrey's book documented his findings at Stonehenge and concluded that there was a Celtic/Druid culture that had existed before written records.
		Drawing from John Aubrey’s concepts of the Druids, Dr. Stukeley would create stories that leave many fiction writers in awe.
		Burl, A. Rings of Stone: The prehistoric stone circles of Britain and Ireland.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/stukeley_william.html (721 words)

	BOOKS - STONE CIRCLES AND STANDING STONES
		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.
		Burl tells the reader how to find a specific site and what to look for, considers problems of dating the remains, points out the interrelationships between widely separated sites, explains place names, and provides stories about legends, witchcraft and funerals associated with the rings.
		Burl, an expert on the subject of stone circles, has created an essential and portable guide to all of the major sites in Great Britain and Brittany.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /aburnham/book/aubreyburl.htm (685 words)

	Standing Stones - M E g A L i T h i A - Books about megalithic sites (UK version)
		No bibliography of British megalithic remains would be complete without reference to the work of Aubrey Burl, an archaeologist who has written many books on the subject, visited them extensively and performed archaeological field-work..
		More of a photo book of the top sites than a comprehensive gazetteer or overall guide ot the archaeology, though Aubrey Burl contributes his own insights in the introduction and some of the short descriptions of the sites.
		If it is understanding and comparison of the different constructional styles you can't beat this one for the depth of his analysis while staying sensitive to the subject.
	www.anima.demon.co.uk /bibliographyuk.html (2160 words)

	Stonehenge, Attractions of Wiltshire, England
		Aubrey Burl contends that the bluestones were not transported by human agency at all and were instead brought by glaciers at least part of the way from Wales during the Pleistocene.
		Assuming that the bluestones were brought from Wales by hand and not transported by glaciers as Aubrey Burl has claimed, various methods of moving them relying only on timber and rope have been suggested.
		During 2001, in an exercise in experimental archaeology, an attempt was made to transport a large stone along a land and sea route from Wales to Stonehenge.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /England/england-interest-west-stonehenge.html (2367 words)

	Standing Stones - M E g A L i T h i A - References
		Prehistoric Avebury, Aubrey Burl, Yale 2002, ISBN 0-300-090870, pp153-4
		Prehistoric Avebury, Aubrey Burl, Yale 2002, ISBN 0-300-090870, p 29
		From Carnac to Callanish, Aubrey Burl, Yale 1993, ISBN 0-300-05575-7, p143
	www.megalithia.com /referenc.html (689 words)

	Amazon.com: Prehistoric Avebury, Second Edition: Books: Aubrey Burl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Here archeologist Burl tells its stories in a text that "sets a high standard in archeological writing for a lay audience," PW stated.
		Burl reminds us that Avebury's structures were built by normal people.
		Burl has gleaned enough information to outline the growth and decline of prehistoric societies, with the Stonehenge ultimately supplanting Avebury in dominance of the area.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300090870?v=glance (901 words)

	British Archaeology magazine, February 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aubrey Burl had a ‘eureka’ moment in pondering Callanish.
		Aubrey Burl on his discovery that folk memories of the circle’s original alignment had survived for 1000 years
		Aubrey Burl's revised 'Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany' was recently published by Yale University Press
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba63/column2.shtml (744 words)

	Great Stone Circles Aubrey Burl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aubrey Burl, Yale University Press 1999, £19.95, hardback, 199 pp.
		Burl introduces and surveys a number of notable British megalithic sites, notably the Rollright Stones, Stanton Drew and Woodhenge.
		He also repeats and brings up to date his argument that the bluestones at Stonehenge could have been deposited on Salisbury Plain by glaciation and not transported from the Preseli mountains.
	www.cultureandcosmos.com /books_noticed/great_stone_circles_aubrey_burl.htm (60 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Circles of Stone: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aubrey Burl, who I understand is THE authority on Stone Circles, manages to keep the information lively and readable.
		It hardly needs saying that Burl's lucid text and pithy wit are a pleasure, as always.
		This fanatic attention to quality is apparent throughout, and is doubtless why the Dr Burl was approached to write the text.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1860466613 (1187 words)

	Paul's Stone Circles - Todmorden (Blackheath)
		Burl rating of the circle: 3 (Ruined but recognisable).
		Although this site is listed in Aubrey Burl's Stone Circles of the British Isles, it is not actually a stone circle.
		Not strictly a stone circle, but as Aubrey Burl (1976) includes the place in his authoritative work on British stone circles, it necessitates inclusion.
	www.sypeland.freeserve.co.uk /site91.htm (863 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised book 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 archaeo-astronomy as related to stone circles, and includes a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
		There are new insight in the the purpose of the rings of stone, a new interpretation of Calanais (sorry, as a Scot I refuse to call it Callanish!) and Stonehenge
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300083475 (1064 words)

	Ceramics from Islamic Lands And Prehistoric Avebury by Aubrey Burl, ISBN 0300090870
		Ceramics from Islamic Lands And Prehistoric Avebury by Aubrey Burl, ISBN 0300090870
		Islamic pottery--the fine ceramics made in the lands of Islam, from the Arab world and Turkey through Iran and into Central Asia--is one of the hidden treasures of world ceramics.
		Written by a leading archaeologist, the book considers every aspect of Avebury's history and construction and discusses the probable purpose of these massive structures, in the process creating a vivid and moving picture of their creators -- a primitive people whose lives were brief, savage, and fearful.
	carloverr.com /ceramics.htm (381 words)

	StrangeWeb News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is because daggers, figurines and axes which were created at Stonehenge are not be found anywhere else in Britain, but are well known in Brittany--in France.
		Aubrey Burl, in a 1997 article in the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, mentioned that Stonehenge's alignment with the sun suggests an origin outside Britain.
		The seventy-year- old Burl, who had been at Hull University the principal lecturer in pre- history, admitted the paucity of evidence for this latter idea.
	www.strangemag.com /news.html (3513 words)

	Prehistoric sites with alignments to the Beltane/Lughnasa cross-quarter days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the current Gregorian calendar, this corresponds to a date of 8th May for Beltane and 9th August for Lughnasa (Burl, 1983, 34).
		The following table gives details of British and Irish sites dating from the later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods which are thought to include alignments towards May Day/Lammas.
		Alignment suggested by Barnatt and cited in Burl, 1983.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Crick_Barrow/BL_Sites.htm (452 words)

	Standing Stones - M E g A L i T h i A - Books about megalithic sites (US version)
		Aubrey Burl, Yale University Press 1995, ISBN 0-300-06331-8
		Aubrey Burl, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-05575-7, 1993
		Aubrey Burl, Yale University Press 1979 rep 1986, ISBN 0-300-03622-1
	www.anima.demon.co.uk /bibliography.html (2154 words)

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