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Authors: Mike Parker Pearson

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1
. Stone 1938.

2
. Stone 1947.

3
. BBC 2010.

4
. Thomas 1923.

5
. Thorpe
et al
. 1991.

6
. Williams-Thorpe
et al
. 2006.

7
. Ixer and Bevins 2011.

8
. Atkinson 1956: 46.

9
. Ixer and Turner 2006.

10
. Van Tilburg 1994.

11
. Atkinson 1956: 109.

12
. John 2008: 47–53.

13
. Hoskins 1986; Parker Pearson
et al
. 2010: 36–9, 490–510.

14
. Pryor 2003: 160.

15
. Pipes 2004.

16
. Hoskins 1986.

17
. Judd 1902.

18
. Thomas 1923.

19
. Kellaway 1971.

20
. Kellaway 1991; 2002.

21
. Green 1973.

22
. Bell and Walker 1992: 72. My research in the Western Isles of Scotland has revealed that it was warm enough at that time to grow wheat, a crop that cannot be grown there today; Parker Pearson
et al
. 2004.

23
. John 2008; Williams-Thorpe
et al
. 1997.

24
. Clark
et al
. 2011; Gibbard and Clark in press.

25
. Williams-Thorpe
et al
. 1997.

26
. Williams-Thorpe
et al
. 2006.

27
. Cunnington 1924.

28
. Pitts 2001: 198–203.

29
. Parker Pearson
et al
. 2010: 36–9.

30
. Breeze and Munro 1997.

31
. Campbell 2003.

32
. Wikipedia 2010.

33
. Morgan 1887; Burl 1976: 104–6.

34
. Bradley and Edmonds 1993.

35
. Whittle
et al
. 1999; Mercer and Healy 2008.

36
. Darvill and Wainwright 2002.

37
. Grimes 1936; 1939.

38
. Grimes 1949; 1960.

39
. Darvill
et al
. 2005: 22.

40
. Grimes 1963; Darvill and Wainwright 2003.

41
. Wright 2007.

42
. Burl 2006: 136.

43
. Atkinson 1956: 190–1.

44
. Darvill 2006.

45
. Fitzpatrick 2002.

46
. Ashbee 1978; Christie 1967.

47
. Pia Bennike pers. comm.; Sundem 2010.

48
. Smith and Brickley 2009: 134.

49
. Leary and Field 2010; Thorpe
et al
. 1991: 109, 112.

50
. Grimes 1963: 150.

51
.
Spinal Tap
is a fictional heavy metal band whose 1984 comedy rock musical “mocumentary” featured a laughably small Stonehenge megalith only 18 inches high, due to a mistake made in the design stage about its dimensions.

52
. Parker Pearson 2005: fig. 49.

53
. Murphy
et al
. 2010: 17.

54
. Mytum and Webster 2003.

55
. Cummins 1979.

56
. Louise Austin pers. comm.

CHAPTER 17

1
. Hawley 1921; 1922.

2
. Howard in Pitts 1982.

3
. Evans
et al
. 1988.

4
. Bowen and Smith 1977.

5
. Atkinson 1956: 110–17.

6
. Hill 1961.

7
. Piggott 1948a.

8
.
Ibid
.

9
. Leary
et al
. 2010.

10
. Wainwright
et al
. 1971.

CHAPTER 18

1
. Evans 1984.

2
. Darvill and Wainwright 2009.

3
. Darwin 1881: 154–6.

4
. Armour-Chelu and Andrews 1994; Canti 2003.

5
. Atkinson 1957.

6
. Cleal
et al
. 1995: fig. 92.

CHAPTER 19

1
. Field
et al
. 2010.

2
. Hinton 1977.

3
. Wright 2007; Giles 1841.

4
. Crowley
et al
. 1995.

CHAPTER 20

1
. Lynch and Musson 2004.

2
. Hardy 1928.

3
. Healy 1997.

4
. Cleal
et al
. 1995: 361; Piggott 1938.

5
. Wainwright 1979; Barber 2009.

6
. Bradley 1975.

7
. Woodward
et al
. 1993.

8
. Atkinson
et al
. 1951; Whittle
et al
. 1992.

9
. Oswald 1969.

10
. West 1990.

11
. Barclay
et al
. 2009.

12
. Green 2000: 77–84; Montgomery
et al
. 2000.

13
. Green 2000: 69–76.

14
. Mortimer 1905.

15
. Gibson and Bayliss 2009.

16
. Kinnes
et al
. 1983.

17
. Piggott 1948b.

18
. SNS-Bornholm n.d.

19
. Lewis and Mullin 2010.

20
. Harding 2003.

21
. Towrie 2008.

22
. Richards 2005.

23
. Ritchie 1976.

24
. Towrie 2010.

25
. Sheridan 2003; 2004.

26
. Ashbee 1993; Healy 2008.

27
. Cummings and Whittle 2004.

28
. Lynch 1975.

29
. Gibson 1999.

30
. Gibson 1992.

31
. As well as Carreg Samson, the other two closed-chamber tombs in Pembrokeshire are Hanging Stone and Parc y Llyn; Sheridan 2010, and see Barker 1992.

32
. Mercer 1999.

33
. Barker 1992: 28–30 j V. Cummings and C. Richards pers. comm.

34
. Wikipedia 2010.

35
. Burl 1993; Cassen 2009.

36
. Márquez-Romero and Fernández Ruiz 2009; Ruiz González 2009.

37
. Renfrew 1968.

38
. Taylor 2001: 142–3.

39
. Grimes 1949.

40
. Piggott 1962.

41
. Gibson 1998a & b.

42
. Richards 1990: fig. 97.

43
. Hartwell 1998; Eogan and Roche 1997.

44
. Gibson 1999.

45
. Atkinson 1956: 163.

CHAPTER 21

1
. Leary and Field 2010.

2
. Dickson and Dickson 2000: 79–81.

3
. O’Kelly 1982.

4
. Phillips 1936.

5
. Wainwright 1979.

6
. Gale
et al
. 2008.

7
. Needham
et al
. 2010.

8
. Piggott 1938.

9
. Needham
et al
. 2010.

10
. Yates 2007.

11
. Burl 2006: 20.

12
. Henry of Huntingdon 1129–1154 [1991].

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