Volume 38, Number 19 · November 21, 1991
Creations of the Dark
By Lord Zuckerman
Circular Evidence
by Pat Delgado, by Colin Andrews
Phanes Press, 191 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence
by Pat Delgado, by Colin Andrews
Bloomsbury/distributed by Phanes Press, 80 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Crop Circle Enigma: Grounding the Phenomenon in Science, Culture and Metaphysics
edited by Ralph Noyes, photographs by Busty Taylor
Gateway Books, 192 pp., £9.95 (paper)
However much they lagged culturally behind the Egyptians, Greeks, and their Roman conquerors of AD 50, the ancient Britons were certainly a busy and ingenious people, whose artifacts have never ceased to amaze, some because of their monumental size, others because their significance remains a mystery. The counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Dorset in southern England are particularly rich in their works. Stonehenge and the smaller stone avenue and circle of nearby Avebury are the most prominent of the scores of stone circles of which remains can be seen in many parts of the British Isles. How the enormous stones of Stonehenge were transported from Wales, where they were quarried, is a never-ending matter for argument.
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