Ancient Stones of Dorset

click here for more details, find new or used items	Peter Knight Our price £12.95 New from £9.88 Used from £7.65 Pages: 208 (Paperback) ISBN: 1898073120 Pub: Power Publications Pub date: 1996-12 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 45796

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Beyond the Old Favourites (4/4 people found this helpful)

Peter Knight takes the rare step of going beyond the old stand-bys of Stonehenge and Avebury to detail dozens of sites which travellers might pass without a second thought. The coverage of Knowlton, a greatly underestimated site, is excellent and does the old place justice. I'd need a bit of convincing about a couple of the stones which I've seen and appear to be there more by coincidence than anything else, but, on the whole, Knight shows us that we should be happy to live in a county with such a wealth of fine sites. Be afraid of the author's ponderous poetry and stick to the site descriptions for maximum enjoyment.

A thorough and painstaking survey. (5/5 people found this helpful)

Well, I live in Dorset and I didn`t know one tenth of the sites that Peter has catalogued in this fascinating labour of love. Designed as a book to be used `in the field`, Ancient Stones Of Dorset covers its subject in painstaking detail from obvious sites such as The Nine Stones near Dorchester, to old reports of stones now long vanished. With much folklore included, and many a ley line, this is a Neolithic winner!

comprehensive cover of standing stones and sites in Dorset (2/2 people found this helpful)

Peter Knight's style at times ventures on the 'alternative evangelical', nevertheless the author has come up with a very comprehensive description of standing stones and sites in Dorset, interspersed with extra snippets of historical information, and many details of ley lines, plans and sketches.

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