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Somerset origin of, flaws in argument for,
274

special nature of,
274

weight of,
266

and West Amesbury,
see
Bluestonehenge

see also
dolerite; Preseli hills; rhyolite; Stonehenge

bog bodies,
201

Boles Barrow bluestone boulder,
272

bone pins and ornaments,
58
,
66
,
154
,
205
,
345
,
346
,
349
,
350

bone points,
66
,
154

bone skewer pins,
319
,
321

bone tools,
58
,
117
,
225
;
see also
antler picks Booth, Mr.
159

Bascombe Down,
214

“boy with the amber necklace,”
214

Bradley, Richard,
145
,
245

Bray, Peter,
125

Brecon Beacons,
265
,
290
,
325

British Geological Survey,
269

British Hedgehog Society,
237

Brittany,
20
,
332

Brodgar, Ness of,
99
,
107
,
324
,
325

Brodgar, Ring of,
99
,
323
,
324

Bronze Age,
4
,
19
,
40
,
286

Beaker pottery from,
see
Beaker people

“bling” from, as exhibited in National Museum of Ireland,
350

Early,
54
,
85
,
143
,
148
,
152
,
154
,
163
,
196
,
218
,
233
,
261
,
282
,
311

flint worked during,
134
,
236

Late, pig figurine from,
236
,
237

Late, three infants buried during,
236

Middle,
163
,
236
,
237
,
311

Neolithic to, transition between,
123
,
344

pottery from,
54
,
77
,
148
,
237
,
238
,
261

and Stonehenge’s new sequence,
see
Stonehenge’s new sequence

Brynberian valley,
289

Buckingham, Duke of,
28
,
132
,
313

Buckley, Dave,
88

Bulford (Tor) Stone,
150
,
151

Burial Act 1857,
173
,
174

Burl, Aubrey,
13
,
279
,
283
,
353

Bush Barrow,
204
,
209
,
347
,
349
,
351

C

Caesar, Julius,
177

Calanais,
325
,
353

“California Dave,”
see
Robinson, David

Card, Nick,
325
,
329

Carmarthen,
290

Carn Brea,
329

Carn Breseb,
287

Carn Ddafad-las,
287

Carn Goedog,
265
,
275
,
283
,
284
,
285
,
289

Carn Menyn (Meini),
265
,
275
,
276
,
277
,
281

Carreg Coetan,
289

Carreg Samson,
20
,
326

Carson, Peter,
180

Casswell, Chris,
253

Castell Mawr,
287

cattle,
15
,
25
,
119
,
120
,
121
,
139
,
145
,
148
,
158
,
161
,
197
,
215
,
247
,
275
,
289
,
327
,
339
,
352

and Beaker people, as center of culture and economy of,
215

domestic, arrival of,
18

at Durrington Walls,
119
,
120
,
159
,
339

milk from,
126
,
214

skulls,
30
,
31
,
139
,
145
,
197

causewayed enclosures,
16
,
139
,
194
,
247
,
275
,
282
,
296

intervening period between circular burial enclosures and,
323

see also
Robin Hood’s Ball

“Celtic fields,”
238

Chalcolithic period,
see
Copper Age

chalk plaques,
227
,
227
,
228

Chamberlain, Andrew,
118
,
199
,
204
,
211
,
256
,
283
,
289

Chan, Ben,
123
,
249

Channel 5,
252

charcoal,
30
,
105
,
135
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
170
,
171
,
229
,
276
,
305
,
306
,
312
,
323

and cremations,
190
,
200

from pine,
141
,
317

Childe, Vere Gordon,
13

Christie, Patricia,
141

chronology of Stonehenge,
see
Stonehenge: radiocarbon dating; Stonehenge’s new sequence

Chubb, Cecil,
36

Churchill, Winston,
12

Clark, Chris,
269
,
270

Clatford,
296
,
298
,
299
,
301

Devil’s Den at,
298

Cleal, Ros,
42
,
43
,
44
,
108
,
128
,
185

closed-chamber tombs,
20

Coldrum,
20
,
326

Collared Urns,
149
,
149
,
153

Colne valley,
319

Colt Hoare, Sir Richard,
2
,
33
,
154
,
204
,
261
,
351

Coneybury,
25
,
95
,
151
,
226
,
229
,
335

Cook, Capt. James,
137

Copper Age (Chalcolithic),
4
,
123
,
196
,
223
,
282
,
344
,
346

axes from,
124
,
124

and Beaker people,
see main entry

flint worked during,
134

and Stonehenge’s new sequence,
see
Stonehenge’s new sequence

copper tools,
124

earliest,
16

Cotswolds,
153
,
328

Council of British Druid Orders,
173

Cox Willis, Christie,
199
,
200
,
202

Craig Rhosyfelin,
283
,
284
,
286
,
288
,
289

Cranborne Chase,
126
,
144
,
158
,
164
,
319
,
348

Crawford, O. G. S.,
216

cremation burials

from Aubrey Hole No. 7,
167
,
172
,
173
,
181
,
187
,
189
,
192
,
199
,
200

from Aubrey Hole No. 32,
184

at Bulford,
152

Early Bronze Age,
152
,
261

Hawley’s discovery of,
38
,
167
,
172
,
181

known number of, at Stonehenge,
193

and radiocarbon dating,
200
,
202

at Stonehenge,
6
,
167
,
181
,
187
,
199
,
309
,
310
,
317
,
343

at Woodhenge,
196
,
339

see also
Aubrey Holes: No. 7

cremation enclosures,
316
,
343

map of,
320

Crickley Hill,
328

crop circles,
244n

Cuckoo Stone,
93
,
147
,
155
,
223

Biconical Urn found at,
149

Collared Urns found at,
149
,
149
,
153

Roman reuse of area around,
150

Cueva de Menga,
332

Cunnington, Maud,
83
,
94
,
160
,
181
,
182
,
196
,
259
,
336

Cunnington, William,
32
,
131
,
182
,
261
,
272

cursuses,
319
,
323

barrows’ relationship with,
145

Dorset,
144

Greater,
59
,
138
,
140
,
262

Lesser,
141
,
144
,
145
,
228

number of, in Britain,
144

D

Danes,
176

Daniel, Glyn,
47

Darvill, Tim,
166
,
171
,
280
,
303
,
343

and bluestones’ movement, theory concerning,
278

dating announcements by Wainwright and,
303

and glacial-movement theory,
275

new chronology of Stonehenge worked on by,
307

Darwin, Charles,
34
,
305

Dawn of European Civilization, The
(Childe),
13

dendrochronology,
21

Department for Culture, Media and Sport,
50
,
166

Destiny, Stone of,
274

Devil’s Den,
298
,
299

Diodorus Siculus,
353

Diviciacus,
178

DNA analysis,
5
,
18
,
19
,
23
,
176
,
200
,
211
,
319
,
328

dolerite,
27
,
229
,
263
,
267
,
271
,
275
,
282
,
283
,
284

easy flaking of,
280

hammerstones of,
278

Donaldson, Peter (“Pedro”),
89
,
104

Dorchester-on-Thames,
181
,
183
,
319
,
322

Dover, Mark,
250

Downes, Jane,
323

Drewett, Peter,
88
,
285

druids, Iron Age,
176
,
178

Roman slaughter of,
179

Druids, present-day,
172
,
173
,
175
,
180

see also
Pagans

Duggleby Howe,
195
,
321
,
323

Dunn, Peter,
297

Durrington,
3

ax found at,
22

Durrington Walls

ancient-monument status of,
56

avenue at,
7
,
14
,
55
,
63
,
70
,
77
,
79
,
92
,
93
,
96
,
101
,
109
,
110
,
116
,
126
,
155
,
156
,
157
,
162
,
183
,
246
,
339
,
342
,
345

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