Christopher Chippindale Books

Portrays ancient sites and burial grounds of Britain and offers possible explanations for their construction and endurance over time.

People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries, speculating and dreaming about it, drawing and painting it, trying to make sense of it. This is the story of the one real Stonehenge, as well as the many unreal Stonehenges that archaeologists, tourists, mystics, astronomers, artists and poets have made out of it.