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