Robin Heath

I am familiar with Stonehenge but yearn to know so much more. I thought I could cheat a bit and discover something new in this little book which covers a different attribute of these ancient stones on every other page followed by an historic drawing of the site. Of particular interest were the sections “Erecting the Stones”, “The Lunation Triangle" and “Rolling Stones” which surmises how stones weighing approximately 50 tons each were brought to Salisbury Plain from 20 and 150 show more miles away. It amazes this reader how people from this period, or prior to, constructed barrows (mounds) in which they buried their dead so similar to the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio or the similarity of Stonehenge’s ceremonial avenue to the Mayan sacbe which leads to the sacred cenote in Chichen Itza. In a profound way it unites humans throughout the world and across time.
Robin Heath is short on details in Stonehenge but he whets the appetite for further discovery and thought.
I would recommend it to………………….someone who wants to get a very basic understanding of Stonehenge show less

Lovely little book that describes the interactions between the sun, moon and earth (e.g. eclipses, solstices, precession, seasons etc) with every second page an illustration.

All organisms respond to four major cycles: the solar and lunar day, the synodic month, and the year.