24+iii pages with plates and folding map. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. The earliest structures known in the immediate area are four or five pits, three of which appear to have held large pine 'totem-pole like' posts erected in the Mesolithic period, between 8500 and 7000 BC. It is not known how these posts relate to the later monument of Stonehenge. At this time, when much of the rest of southern England was largely covered by woodland, the chalk downland in the area of Stonehenge may have been an unusually open landscape. It is possible that this is why it became the site of an early Neolithic monument complex. This complex included the causewayed enclosure at Robin Hood's Ball, two cursus monuments or rectangular earthworks (the Greater, or Stonehenge, and Lesser Cursus), and several long barrows, all dating from the centuries around 3500 BC. The presence of these monuments probably influenced the later location of Stonehenge. Condition: Edge wear, previous owner's name to front wrapper verso, some tape to inner joint, soiled else better than good.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M0327
Title: Stonehenge: Wiltshire
Author: Robert Stirling "R S" Newall (1812-1889)
Book Condition: Used - Better than Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationary Office
Place of Publication: Her Majesty's Stationary Office
Date Published: 1955
Pages: 24+iii pages with plates and folding map
Size: Octavo
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Miscelaneous;

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Wrappers: The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.