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* Discovering
Prehistoric Britain - James Oyer |
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If
you can find a bottle of this lovely beer, now it's time to sit back
& relax while enjoying these references and other books listed
below. |
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* Discovering
Prehistoric Britain - James Oyer |
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Megaliths
and
fiction
Several novelists and filmdirectors have used megalithic structures in their fiction products, some giving them a prominent role. In the Malta section I have included a few stills from a movie, and below are two books from my own collection. |
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Neil Gunn's The Silver Bough (Faber & Faber, 1948; cover reproduced here is from the paperback Richard Drew Publishing, Glasgow, 1985). In this novel Simon Grant, an archeologist, leads excavations inside a neolithic cairn with an outer circle of standing stones in the Scottish Highlands. Andy Mackenzie, a subnormal lad, is killed when a tall monolith topples over in the SW of the circle. |
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Then there is Elizabeth George's In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999). A detective novel situated in the Peak District that evolves around a double murder on the imaginary "Calder Moor". The victims are found in and close to the fictive "Nine Sisters Henge", a neolithic earthbanked enclose with a stone circle. The picture is from the map in the bound edition. |
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your suggestions of other fiction in which megaliths play a major role, as all other comments, are highly appreciated: merodema@postmaster.co.uk thank you for visiting! |