Stonehenge a New Understanding (68 page)

Palisade,
see
Stonehenge Palisade

passage tombs,
276n

Passmore, A. D.,
67

Peak District,
213

Pendragon, Uther,
312

Pentre Ifan,
276
,
334

perfect circles,
322

periglacial features,
242
,
243
,
245
,
249
,
310

Peterborough Ware,
54
,
54
,
330

Peter’s Mound,
110

Peterson, Rick,
296

phallus, flint,
66
,
68
,
68

pig figurine,
236
,
237

Piggott, Stuart,
38
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
47
,
182
,
185
,
299
,
349

pigs,
18
,
25
,
102
,
103
,
108
,
119
,
126
,
158
,
161
,
197
,
230
,
305

Pike, Alistair,
160

Pipes, Gordon,
268

Pitts, Mike,
40
,
42
,
148
,
167
,
203
,
248
,
252
,
258

and Boles Barrow,
272

plant remains
see
Durrington Walls: plant remains; Neolithic period: plant remains

Pollard, Josh,
3
,
13
,
62
,
182
,
198
,
286
,
334
,
335

Avebury excavation by,
59
,
152

Bluestonehenge excavation by,
220
,
232

Larkhill excavation by,
110

Stonehenge palisade excavation by,
235

Stukeley sarsens sketch turned up by,
296
,
298

at West Kennet excavation,
234

Woodhenge excavation by,
85
,
94
,
95
,
150
,
160
,
196
,
259
,
339

pollen analysis,
163

portal dolmens,
276
,
287
,
289
,
298
,
299
,
325
,
328
,
331
,
334

Parton Down,
39

Posidonius,
179

pottery

Beaker,
54
,
77
,
117
,
117
,
170
,
206
,
212
,
344
,
350

Bronze Age,
4
,
19
,
40
,
54
,
77
,
148
,
187
,
237
,
238
,
261

Grooved Ware,
see main entry

in Ireland,
20

Iron Age,
101

Neolithic,
20
,
53
,
54
,
55
,
148
,
275
,
330

Peterborough Ware,
see main entry

Roman, at Stonehenge,
32
,
170

in Scotland,
20

simple names given to types of,
54

spiral-decorated,
115

Preseli hills,
7
,
264
,
275
,
278
,
283
,
325
,
327

absence of Late Neolithic monuments in or near,
327

acidic soils of,
276

Bedd Arthur in,
277

Bedd yr Afanc in,
276

Carn Breseb in,
287

Carn Ddafad-las in,
287

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

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

Castell Mawr in,
287

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

Foel Trigarn in,
276

Gors Fawr in,
277

holy wells in,
281

map showing location of,
24

Meini Gwyr in,
277

Pentre Ifan in,
276
,
334

possible ancestral significance of,
328

possible Salisbury Plain link with,
271

prehistoric houses in,
285

prehistoric quarry found in,
286

rich in Neolithic monuments,
276

Riverside Project team’s work in,
283
,
286

stone circles in,
277

stone tools from,
271

Waun Mawn in,
283
,
288
,
289

see also
bluestones

Preshute,
296

Priddy Circles,
323

Pytheas of Marseilles,
353

Q and R Holes,
43
,
166
,
183
,
193
,
223
,
253
,
260
,
303
,
307
,
310
,
343

radiocarbon dating

of cremated bones,
200
,
202

of Durrington Walls,
5
,
110
,
117

new Stonehenge chronology based on,
307
;
see also
Stonehenge’s new sequence

of Stonehenge,
23
,
40
,
42
,
45
,
108
,
128
,
135
,
169
,
184
,
185
,
200
,
230
,
247
,
303
,
307
,
332

Ramilisonina,
6
,
7
,
9
,
205
,
219
,
268
,
273
,
293

Rawlins, Henry,
55

Rawlins, Stan,
55
,
61
,
96

red deer,
24
,
25
,
121

pick-axes from antlers of,
32
,
121
,
197

Renfrew, Colin,
47
,
332

Reynolds, Peter,
74

rhyolite,
262
,
263
,
265
,
283
,
284
,
286

St David’s (Group VIII) source of,
289

Richards, Colin,
3
,
56
,
62
,
74
,
86
,
90
,
246
,
287
,
289

bluestone chippings’ distribution plotted by,
228

at Coneybury excavation,
25

Cuckoo Stone excavation by,
147
,
148
,
150
,
223

at Fargo Plantation,
94
,
229
,
262

and Grooved Ware,
53

and molehills,
53
,
248

open-air cremation witnessed by,
190

and Orkney,
52
,
58
,
72
,
97
,
106
,
323

and quarries,
150
,
284

and stones’ shaping and dressing,
248

Tor Stone excavation by,
151

Richards, Julian,
25
,
133
,
140
,
143
,
167
,
189
,
226
,
227

disagreement of, over Aubrey Hole,
193n

dolerite found by,
229

pits discovered by,
145
,
227

Richards, Mike,
211

Ring of Brodgar,
99
,
323
,
324

Rispebjerg complex,
323

River Avon,
1
,
17
,
57
,
59
,
216
,
229
,
246
,
265
,
343
,
347

changing course of,
156

paleochannels of,
156
,
162

role of, within Stonehenge landscape,
156

Site of Special Scientific Interest,
217

stone found in,
151

Stonehenge-Durrington Walls link provided by,
7
,
10
,
14
,
50
,
55

see also
Avon valley

Robin Hood’s Ball,
139
,
196
,
300

see also
causewayed enclosures

Robinson, David (“California Dave”),
94
,
95
,
160
,
238

rock art,
276

Roman foot,
254
,
260

Roman period,
69
,
150
,
157
,
176
,
237
,
254
,
307
,
311
,
312

burials during,
150

Caesar on,
177

coins from,
150
,
312

Diodorus Siculus on,
353

and druids,
76
,
177
,
178

and Greater Cursus,
140

Late, buildings of,
150

and phallus symbolism,
69

pit circle reused as amphitheater during,
318

pottery from,
32
,
170
,
187
,
312

Tacitus on,
179

Ross Island,
125

round barrows,
152
,
194
,
196
,
233
,
298
,
312
,
346
,
347
,
352

Royal Archaeological Institute,
62

Rudston,
331
,
332

Ruggles, Clive,
48
,
79
,
246

Russell, Miles,
171

Rylatt, Jim,
218
,
220
,
230

Sahlins, Marshall,
20

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum,
38
,
90
,
108
,
132
,
150
,
184
,
272

Salisbury Plain

and last Ice Age,
63
,
163

later habitation of,
326

many monuments on,
1
,
7

as military training area,
110
,
147

possible Preseli link with,
271

small, mobile groups inhabit,
135

see also
Stonehenge

sarsen,
34
,
147
,
150
,
292

from Bulford,
152

chippings from stone-dressing area,
42
,
247
,
251

chippings from Stonehenge and avenue,
187
,
243
,
247