Illustrations

Author and Tor working in the Stonehenge landscape.
Wayne Bennett working on Exmoor.
1.1Map showing study areas discussed in the book.
2.1'Mesolithic' pathway through the forest.
2.2Deforested area of the East Hill ridge, East Devon.
2.3Forested area of the East Hill ridge, East Devon.
2.4View across the northern edge of the chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase.
2.5Hembury Hill, East Devon, seen from the south.
2.6Places mentioned in the text.
2.7Flint 'femur' end.
2.8Broken and disarticulated flint 'bones'; central South Dorset.
II.1Melbury Beacon at the eastern end of the Ox-Drove ridge.
3.1Stonehenge Riverside project survey area and places mentioned in the text.
3.2Landscape and barrow distribution in the vicinity of Stonehenge.
3.3Visual envelope in the immediate vicinity of Stonehenge.
3.4Beacon Hill Ridge seen from the west.
3.5Pebbles on the Beacon Hill Ridge.
3.6Sidbury Hill seen looking out from the entrance to Woodhenge.
3.7Stonehenge seen from the northeast.
3.8Plan of Stonehenge.
3.9View across the central area of Stonehenge.
3.10Axe-blade-shaped bluestones forming the inner 'horseshoe'.
3.11Axe carvings on the inner face of stone 53.
3.12Inner faces of stones 51 to 54.
3.13Inner faces of stones 53 and 54.
3.14View out from the centre of Stonehenge looking east.
3.15New King Barrows seen from the Stonehenge enclosure.
3.16Gravels in the bed of the Nine Mile River.
3.17One of the New King Barrows seen from the west.
3.18View toward Stonehenge from the south.
3.19Stone 11.
3.20Stone 16.
3.21Arcs of barrows around Stonehenge.
4.1Location of the study area in southwest Wiltshire and northeast Dorset.
4.2Ebble-Nadder ridge showing locations of barrows, dykes, and places mentioned in the text.
4.3Ox-Drove ridge.
4.4The long barrow on Buxbury Hill.
4.5Distribution of round barrows and dykes, eastern Ebble-Nadder ridge.
4.6Locations of barrows 6–13, Ebble-Nadder ridge.
4.7Round barrow at the head of Punch Bowl Bottom.
4.8Intervisibility of round barrow, Ebble-Nadder ridge.
4.9Intervisibility of barrows along Ox-Drove ridge.
4.10Punch Bowl Bottom, eastern end of the Ebble-Nadder ridge.
4.11Northern end of Hut Bottom Coombe.
4.12View south from the head of the coombe, down to Compton Ivers cross dyke.
4.13View of northern escarpment edge of Ebble-Nadder ridge from the north.
4.14View south from southern end of dyke No. 6.
4.15View toward the head of the coombe and Row Ditch cross dyke termination.
4.16Northern end of Row Ditch cross dyke.
4.17Western end of Swallowcliffe Down cross dyke.
4.18View down the coombe from eastern terminal of cross dyke 9 on Ebble-Nadder ridge.
4.19Western terminal of cross dyke 9.
4.20Looking down Norrington coombe from southern end of Half Mile Ditch.
4.21Looking along Malacombe Bottom from eastern terminal of cross dyke 5.
4.22Eastern terminal of cross dyke 5.
4.23Northern terminal of Win Green South cross dyke.
4.24View along the coombe and Hatt's Barn cross-dyke termination.
4.25Northern end of Fontmell Down east cross dyke.
4.26Southern end of Fontmell Down east cross dyke.
4.27Northern end of Melbury Beacon cross dyke.
4.28Southern end of Melbury Beacon cross dyke.
4.29Sketch plans of terminal ends of dykes in relationship to coombes.
5.1South Dorset study area.
5.2Eastern end of the South Dorset Ridgeway.
5.3Longitudinal section along the South Dorset Ridgeway.
5.4Chesil Beach seen from Abbotsbury.
5.5Map of southern England showing distribution of Portland chert artefacts.
5.6Neolithic monuments and 'domestic' sites in the study area.
5.7Maiden Castle causewayed enclosure and bank barrow.
5.8Martin's Down bank barrow.
5.9Distribution of Bronze Age barrows in the South Dorset Ridgeway area.
5.10Barrows in vicinity of Broadmayne bank barrow.
5.11Barrow groups along the Ridgeway from Broadmayne to Bincombe Down.
5.12Barrow groups along the Ridgeway from Bincombe Down to Bronkham Hill.
5.13Part of the barrow line: from below Bronkham Hill toward Ridge Hill.
5.14Barrow groups along the Ridgeway from Bronkham Hill to the Black Down summit.
5.15Summit area of Bronkham Hill showing barrows and dolines.
5.16Bronkham Hill: distribution of barrows and dolines.
5.17Distribution of dolines and barrows on the summit of Bronkham Hill.
5.18Barrow groups along the Ridgeway from Black Down to Martin's Down.
5.19Barrow Group R2.
III.1Exmoor: Looking east down the upper reaches of the Exe valley.
6.1Location of Pebblebed heathlands in East Devon.
6.2Location of barrows on Pebblebed heathlands.
6.3Pebblebed exposure running through the cliffs at Budleigh Salterton.
6.4Yellow band running across Pebblebeds in the cliffs at Budleigh Salterton.
6.5Pebbles exposed in a streambed on Aylesbeare Common.
6.6Looking to the southeast across the Pebblebed heathlands on Bicton Common.
6.7View to the west to the Haldon Hills from Woodbury Castle.
6.8Dumpdon Hill in the Honiton Gap.
6.9Gravels on the top of Peak Hill and the Haldon Hills and Pebblebed pebbles.
6.10Wall with pebble facing, Budleigh Salterton.
6.11Distinctive triangular shape of High Peak on the horizon.
6.12Large summit barrow on Aylesbeare Common.
6.13Barrow 18 on western scarp of Pebblebed heathlands.
6.14Barrow 12 in centre of a spur.
6.15Barrow 17.
6.16Carter's section drawing of the Woodbury e cairn.
6.17Woodbury e pebble cairn.
6.18Pebble pavement on Aylesbeare Common.
6.19Axe-blade-shaped pavement on Aylesbeare Common.
6.20Barrow intervisibility on Pebblebed heathlands.
6.21View across the Exe estuary.
6.22River Otter at Dotton.
6.23Cosmological landscape of East Devon Pebblebeds.
7.1Exmoor, showing places discussed in the text.
7.2Castle rock in the Valley of the Rocks and Swincombe Rocks.
7.3Distribution of stone circles and stone rows on Exmoor.
7.4One of the stones in the Porlock stone circle.
7.5Thornworthy Common, White Ladder, and. Wilmersham Common stone rows.
7.6Distribution of stone settings on Exmoor.
7.7Central stones in the Chapman's Barrows and Brendon Two Gates quincunxes.
7.8Map of the locations of the stone settings discussed in the text.
7.9Chapman Barrows stone setting.
7.10Wood Barrow stone setting.
7.11Long Chains North stone setting.
7.12Exe Head stone setting.
7.13Furzehill V stone setting.
7.14Hoaroak stone setting.
7.15Cheriton Ridge IV stone setting.
7.16Brendon Two Gates stone setting.
7.17Lanacombe I stone setting.
7.18Trout Hill II stone setting.
7.19Great Tom's Hill stone setting.
7.20East Pinford stone setting.
7.21Westermill stone setting.
7.22Almsworthy Common stone setting.
7.23Porlock Allotment stone setting.
7.24The Five Barrows.
7.25Dominant views in the upper reaches of the Badgworthy Water.
7.26Small herd of deer west of the Wood Barrow stone setting.
7.27Diagram of stag's antlers.
7.28Valleys in the form of stag's antlers.
IV.1Summit stacks on Stowe's Pound, Bodmin Moor.
8.1Major places mentioned in the text and distribution of Mesolithic finds on Bodmin Moor.
8.2Distribution of Neolithic monuments on Bodmin Moor.
8.3The Cheesewring, Stowe's Pound, Bodmin Moor.
8.4Showery Tor cairn at the end of the Rough Tor ridge.
8.5Rough Tor summit and runnel through the rocks.
8.6View to Rough Tor from Leskernick stone row.
8.7View along long axis of the Catshole Tor long cairn.
8.8Rough Tor enclosure.
8.9Cairns, ceremonial monuments, houses, and field enclosures around Leskernick Hill.
8.10Intervisibility patterns between cairns and ceremonial monuments on Craddock Moor.
8.11Fernacre stone circle with Rough Tor ridge beyond.
8.12The Hurlers stone circles seen from cairn 6.
8.13Distribution of large cairns, ceremonial monuments, and. land boundaries in northwest Bodmin Moor.
8.14Intervisibility patterns between cairns and monuments on Trehundreth Downs.
8.15Intervisibility patterns between cairns and ceremonial monuments to the south of Rough Tor.
8.16Distribution of Tor cairns on Bodmin Moor.
8.17Land boundaries, houses, monuments, and cairns in East Moor area.
9.1West Penwith.
9.2View to Carn Galver from interior of Boskedan stone circle.
9.3Rock stack resembling a wall on the western side of Trendrine Hill.
9.4Giant's stone, Zennor.
9.5Cleft in rocks on the summit stacks of Trendrine Hill.
9.6Collapsed block and chamber space on the eastern side of Trevalgan Hill.
9.7Water-filled solution basin, northern end of Carn Zennor.
9.8Central summit stack in the middle of Neolithic enclosure at Carn Brea.
9.9Solution basins in Bosworlas Rocks.
9.10Sites discussed in the text.
9.11Chun Quiot.
9.12Zennor Quoit.
9.13Remains of Sperris Quoit.
9.14Men-An-Tol.
9.15Eroded-through solution basin, southern end of Zennor Hill.
9.16Borlase's plan of the Watch Croft barrow.
9.17Rocky outcrop on northern side of Chapel Carn Brea.
9.18Rocky outcrops enclosed by inner rampart at Treryn Dinas.
10.1Phenomenological interpretative triangle.