Log in Free trial  Archaeology: Ever-Increasing Stone Circles
Article excerpt  THE FIRST comprehensive survey of the world's
largest series of prehistoric stone monuments has just been
completed by a leading British archaeologist.  Dr Aubrey Burl
has spent 20 years travelling more than 20,000 miles throughout
Britain, Ireland and Brittany, in search of ancient stone
circles and similar monuments, and has succeeded in tracking
down some 2,200.  His detailed analysis of their design and
geographical distribution is now shedding important new light on
a 2,300-year-long period of British prehistory. Differing widely
in size, the sites fall into four main categories - stone
circles, stone avenues, stone rows and multiple stone rows.  The
site with the most stones - a multiple row complex at Kerzerho
in Brittany - consists of 1,129 standing stones, while the
largest site in terms of area is the 28-acre great stone circle
at Avebury, in Wiltshire.  The longest row, running across Stall
Moor on Dartmoor, is two- and