Select bibliography of Stonehenge and its landscape
 
 

General & populist

Burl, A, 1999, Great Stone Circles. London: Yale University Press.

Chippindale, C, 1994, Stonehenge complete. (Revised edition). London: Thames and Hudson

Chippindale, C, et al., 1990, Who owns Stonehenge? London : Batsford

Harison, W J, 1902, Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 32, 1-169

Legg, R., 1986, Stonehenge antiquaries. Sherborne: Dorset Publishing
 
 

Stonehenge and the prehistoric landscape

Ashbee, P, 1998, Stonehenge: its possible noncompletion, slighting and dilapidation. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 91, 139-42

Atkinson, R J C, 1979, Stonehenge (Revised edition). Harmondsworth: Penguin

Atkinson, R J C, 1995, Stonehenge and neighbouring monuments (Second edition). London: English Heritage

Bender, B, 1998, Stonehenge: making spaces. Oxford: BERG

Burl, A, 1987, The Stonehenge People. London: J M Dent

Castleden, R, 1987, The Stonehenge People. London: Routledge

Castleden, R, 1993, The making of Stonehenge. London: Routledge

Crawford, O G S, 1954, The symbols carved on Stonehenge. Antiquity, 28, 25-31

Cunliffe, B, and Renfrew, C, (eds), Science and Stonhenge (Proceedings of the British Academy 92). London: The British Academy

Gibson, A M, 1998, Stonehenge and timber circles. Stroud: Tempus

Grinsell, L V, 1978, The Stonehenge Barrow Groups. Salisbury: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum

Newall, R, 1929, Stonehenge. Antiquity 3, 75-88.

North, J D, 1997, Stonehenge : Neolithic man and the cosmos. London: HarperCollins

Piggott, S, 1951, Stonehenge reviewed. In W F Grimes (ed), Aspects of archaeology in Britain and beyond. London: H W Edwards. 274-292

Richards, J, 1991, Stonehenge. London: Batsford & English Heritage

Richards, J, 1991, Beyond Stonehenge (Second edition). Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology

Souden, D, 1997, Stonehenge: mysteries of the stones and landscape. London: Collins & Brown in association with English Heritage

Stevens, F, 1916, Stonehenge, today and yesterday. London: HMSO

Stone, E H, 1924, The stones of Stonehenge. London: Robert Scott

Wheatley, D, 1998, A new view of Stonehenge. Swindon: Braden
 
 

Stonehenge area in the 1^st and 2^nd millennia AD

Aston, M. & Lewis, C (eds), 1994., The medieval landscape of Wessex. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Chippindale, C, 1976, The enclosure of Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 70/71 (1975-76), 109-123

Hinton, D A, 1977, Alfred’s Kingdom: Wessex and the South, 800-1500. London: Dent

Yorke, B,. 1995, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages. London: Leicester University Press.
 
 
 

Antiquarian

Barclay, E, 1895, Stonehenge and its earth-works. London : D Nutt

Harrison, W. J, 1901 Stonehenge and its barrows. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 16, 1-244

Hoare, Sir R C,1821, The ancient history of Wiltshire. Volume II. London: Lackington. [Reprinted 1975 by EP Publishing of Wakefield]

Jones, I, 1655, The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury plain, restored by I.J. Edited by J.Webb. London: J. Flesher for D. Pakeman and L. Chapman

Long, W, 1876, Stonehenge and its Barrows. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine,16,1-244

Mayton, W G, 1800, Account of the fall of some of the stones of Stonehenge. Archaeologia, 13, 103-106

Petrie, W M F, 1880, Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories. London: Edward Stanford

Stukeley, W, 1740, Stonehenge, a temple restor'd to the British druids. London: W Innys & R Manby
 
 

20^th Century investigations
 

Excavations

Ashbee, P, 1978, Amesbury Barrow 51: excavation 1960. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 70/71 (1975-76), 1-60

Ashbee, P, 1981, Amesbury barrow 39: excavations 1960. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 74/75 (1979-80), 1-34

Ashbee, P, Bell, M, & Proudfoot, E, 1989, Wilsford Shaft Excavations, 1960-62 (HBMCE Archaeological Report 11). London: English Heritage

Atkinson, R J C, Piggott, S, & Stone, J F S, 1952, The excavations of two additional holes at Stonehenge, and new evidence for the date of the monument. Antiquaries Journal, 32, 14-20

Bond, D, 1983, An excavation at Stonehenge, 1981. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 77, 39-43

Bradley, R, Entwistle, R, & Raymond, F, 1994, Prehistoric land divisions on Salisbury Plain (English Heritage Archaeological Report 2). London: English Heritage

Christie, C M, 1963, The Stonehenge Cursus. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 58, 370-82

Christie, P M, 1964, A bronze Age round barrow on earl’s Farm Down Amesbury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 59, 30-45

Christie, P M, 1970, A round barrow on Greenland Farm, Winterbourne Stoke. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 65, 64-73

Clay, R C C, 1927, Stonehenge Avenue. Antiquity, 1, 342-4

Cleal, R C & Allen, M, 1994, Investigation of tree-damaged barrows on King Barrow Ridge and Luxenborough Plantation, Amesbury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 87, 54-84

Cleal, R M J, Walker, K E, and Montague, R, 1995, Stonehenge in its landscape : twentieth-century excavation (English Heritage Archaeological Report 10). London: English Heritage

Crawford, O G S, 1924, The Stonehenge Avenue. Antiquaries Journal, 4, 57-8

Crawford, O, 1929, Durrington Walls. Antiquity, 3, 49-59.

Cunnington, M E, 1929. Woodhenge. Devizes: Privately published

Darvill, T C, 1997, Stonehenge Conservation and Management Programme: a summary of archaeological assessments and field evaluations undertaken 1990-1996. London: English Heritage

Evans, J G, 1984, Stonehenge: the environment in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and a beaker burial. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 78, 7-30

Gingell, C, 1988, Twelve Wiltshire round barrows. Excavations 1959 and 1961 by F de M and H L Vatcher. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 82, 19-76

Gowland, W, 1902, Recent excavations at Stonehenge. Archaeologia, 58, 37-82

Gowland, W, 1903, Recent excavations at Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine,33, 1-62.

Graham, A & Newman, C, 1993, Recent excavations of Iron Age and Romano-British enclosures in the Avon Valley. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 86, 8-57

Green, C, and Rollo-Smith, S, 1984, The excavation of eighteen round barrows near Shrewton, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 50, 255-318

Grimes, W F, 1964, Excavations of the Lake Group of Barrows, Wiltshire. Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, 4, 89-121

Harding, P, 1988, The chalk plaque pit, Amesbury. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 54, 320-26

Harding P A & Gingell, C J, 1986, The excavation of two long barrows by F de M and H F L Vatcher. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 80, 7-22

Heaton, M, and Cleal, R M J, 2000, Beaker pits at Crescent Copse, near Shrewton, Wiltshire, and the effects of arboreal fungi on archaeological remains. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 93, 71-81

Hunter-Mann, K, 1999, Excavations at Vespasian’s Camp Iron Age Hillfort, 1987. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 92, 39-52

King, A N, 1970, Crop-mark near West Amesbury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 65, 190-1

Laidler, B & Young, W E V, 1938, A surface flint industry from a site near Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 48, 151-60

McKinley, J L, 1999, Further excavations of an Iron Age and Romano-British enclosed settlement at Figheldean, near Netheravon. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 92, 7-32

Moore, C N, 1966, A possible beaker burial from Larkhill, Durrington. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 61, 92

Newell, R S, 1931, Barrow 35, Amesbury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 45, 253-61

Passmore, A D, 1940, A disc barrow containing curious flints near Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 49, 238

Pitts, M W, 1980, On two barrows near Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 74/75 (1979-80), 181-4

Pitts, M. W, 1981, The discovery of a new stone at Stonehenge. Archaeoastronomy, 4, 17-21.

Pitts, M W, 1981, 1st & 2nd millennia AD, Stones, pits and Stonehenge. Nature 290, 46-7.

Pitts, M W, 1982, On the road to Stonehenge: Report on investigations beside the A344 in 1968, 1979 and 1980. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 48, 75-132

Pollard, J, 1995, The Durrington 68 timber circle: a forgotten late Neolithic monument. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 88, 122-25

Rawlings, M, & Fitzpatrick, A P, 1996, Prehistoric sites and a Romano-British settlement at Butterfield Down, Amesbury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 89, 1-43

Smith, G, 1981, Excavations in Stonehenge car park. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 74-75 (1979-80), 181

Smith, G, 1973, Excavations of the Stonehenge Avenue at West Amesbury, Wiltshire. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 68, 42-56

Stevens, F, 1919, Skeleton found at Fargo. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 11, 359

Stone, J F S, 1938, An early Bronze Age grave in Fargo Plantation near Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 48, 357-70

Stone, J F S, 1935, Some discoveries at Ratfyn, Amesbury and their bearing on the date of Woodhenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine,47, 55-67

Stone, J F S, 1947, The Stonehenge Cursus and its affinities. Archaeological Journal, 104, 7-19

Stone J F S, 1949, Some grooved ware pottery from the Woodhenge area. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 15, 122-27

Stone, J F S, & Young, W E V, 1948, two pits of grooved ware date near Woodhenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 52, 287-306

Thomas, N, 1964, The Neolithic causewayed camp at Robin Hood’s Ball, Shrewton. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 59, 1-27

Vatcher, F de M, 1961, The excavations of the long mortuary enclosure on Normanton Down, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 27, 160-173

Vatcher, F de M & Vatcher, H L, 1973, Excavation of three postholes in Stonehenge car park. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 68, 57-63

Wainwright, G J, and Longworth, I H, 1971, Durrington Walls Excavations, 1966-1968 (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 29). London: Society of Antiquaries

Wainwright, G J, 1970, The excavation of prehistoric and Romano-British settlements near Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, 1970. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 66, 76-128
 
 

Surveys and gazetteers

Capper, J, 1907, Photographs of Stonehenge, as seen from a War Balloon. Archaeologia, 60, 571.

Grinsell, L V, 1957, Archaeological gazetteer. In R B Pugh (ed), Victoria County History of Wiltshire. Volume 1.1. London: Institute of Historical Research. 21-279

RCHME, 1979, Stonehenge and its environs. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Richards, J, 1990, The Stonehenge Environs Project (HBMCE Archaeological Report 16). London: English Heritage
 
 

Dating Stonehenge and its environs

Bayliss, A, Bronk Ramsey, C, & McCormac, G, 1997, Dating Stonehenge. In Cunliffe, B & Renfrew, C (eds) Science & Stonehenge. London: British Academy/Oxford University Press. 39-59.

Bronk Ramsey, C & Bayliss, A, 2000, Dating Stonehenge. In Lockyer, K & Mihailescu-Bîrliba, V (eds), Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
 

Syntheses and interpretative discussions

Burl, A, 1991, The Heel Stone, Stonehenge: a study in misfortunes. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 84, 1-10

Burl, A, 1994, Stonehenge: slaughter, sacrifice and sunshine. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 87, 85-95

Hawkes, J, 1967, God in the machine. Antiquity, 41, 174-80

Parker-Pearson, M & Ramilisonina, 1998, Stonehenge for the ancestors: the stones pass on the message. Antiquity, 72, 308-326

Pollard, J, 1995, Structured deposition at Woodhenge. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 61, 137-56

Pollard, J & Ruggles, C, 2001, Shifting Perceptions: Spatial order, cosmology and patterns of deposition at Stonehenge. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 11.1, 69-90

Whittle, A, 1997, Remembered and imagined belongings: Stonehenge in its traditions and structures of meaning. In B Cunliffe & C Renfrew (eds), Science and Stonehenge (Proceedings of the British Academy 92). Oxford: British Academy. 145-166

Woodward, A B & P J, Woodward, 1996, The topography of some barrow cemeteries in Bronze Age Wessex. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 62, 275-292
 
 

Artefacts, materials, and sources

Annable, F K & Simpson, D D A, 1964, Guide catalogue of the Neolithic and Bronze Age Collections in Devizes Museum. Devizes: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Atkinson, R J C, 1974, The Stonehenge bluestones. Antiquity, 48, 62-3

Gerloff, S, 1975, The early Bronze Age daggers in Great Britain and a reconsideration of the Wessex Culture (Prahistoriche Bronzefund vi). Munich: Beck

Kellaway G A, 1971, Glaciation and the stones of Stonehenge. Nature, 232, 30-35

Thomas, H H, 1923, The source of the stone of Stonehenge. Antiquaries Journal, 3, 239-60

Thorpe, R S, William-Thorpe, O, Jenkin, D G, & Watson, J S, 1991, The geological sources and transport of the bluestones of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 57.2, 103-157

Williams-Thorpe, O, Green, C P & Scource, J D, 1997, The Stonehenge bluestones: discussion. In B Cunliffe & C Renfrew, C (eds), Science and Stonehenge (Proceedings of the British Academy 92). Oxford: British Academy. 315-318
 
 

Ancient environment of the Stonehenge area
 

Allen, M, 1997, Environment and Land-use: The economic communities who built Stonehenge (an economy to support the stones).  In Cunliffe, B, & Renfrew, C, (eds), Science and Stonehenge.  Proceedings of the British Academy, 92. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 115-144.

Allen, M, unpublished.  The history of land-use on the hilltop within Vespasian’s camp: the mulluscan evidence. Unpublished manuscript.

Allen, M. & Entwistle, R, 1994, The contemporary land-use and landscape of the King Barrows as evidenced by the buried soils, pollen and molluscs.  In Cleal, R. C. C. & Allen, M,  Investigation of tree-damaged barrows on King Barrow Ridge and Luxenborough Plantation, Amesbury.  Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 87, 54-84.
 
 
 

Folklore, astronomy, New Age, and cosmology

Atkinson, R J C, 1966, Moonshine on Stonehenge. Antiquity, 40, 212-16

Atkinson, R J C, 1982, Aspects of the archaeoastronomy of Stonehenge. In D C Heggie (ed), Archaeoastronomy in the Old World. Cambridge: British Academy. 107-16

Grinsell, L V, 1978, The Druids and Stonehenge: the story of a myth (West Country Folklore 11). St. Peter-Port, Guernsey: Toucan Press

Hawkins, G S, 1966, Stonehenge decoded. London: Souvenir Press

Hoyle, F, 1977, On Stonehenge. London: Heinemann Educational

Newham, C A, 1972, The astronomical significance of Stonehenge. Shirenewton: Moon Publications

Lockyer, Sir N, 1901, An attempt to ascertain the date of the original construction of Stonehenge from its orientation. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 69, 137-147

Lockyer, Sir N, 1909, Stonehenge and other British stone monuments astronomically considered. London: Macmillan

Robinson, J H, 1907, Sunrise and moonrise at Stonehenge. Nature, 225, 1236-7

Thom, A, 1975, Stonehenge as a possible lunar observatory. Cambridge: Science History Publications

Thom, A, 1974, Stonehenge. Journal of the History of Astronomy, 5.2 , 71-90
 
 

The Stonehenge area in its wider archaeological setting

Burgess, C, 1980, The Age of Stonehenge. London: Dent

Burl, A, 1997, The sarsen horseshoe inside Stonehenge: a rider. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 90, 1-12

Eogan, G, 1997, Stonehenge and its wider context. In B Cunliffe & C Renfrew (eds), Science and Stonehenge (Proceedings of the British Academy 92). Oxford: British Academy. 319-334.

Piggott, S, 1938, The early bronze Age in Wessex. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 4, 52-106

Sherratt, A, 1996, Why Wessex? The Avon route and river transport in later prehistory. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 15.2, 211-234
 
 

The Stonehenge area in its wider social context

Bender, B, 1992, Theorising landscapes, and the prehistoric archaeology of Stonehenge. Man (NS), 27, 735-55

Burl, A, 1991, Megalithic myth or man the mover? Antiquity 65, 297-8.

Chippindale, C, 1986, Stoned Henge: events and issues at the summer solstice 1985. World Archaeology, 18.1, 38-58

Cunnington, B H, 1924, The “blue stone” from Boles Barrow. Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine, 42, 431-7.

Renfrew, C, 1973, Monuments, mobilisation and social organisation in neolithic Wessex. In Renfrew (ed), The Explanation of Culture Change. London: Duckworth. 539-58.

Richards, C, & Thomas, J, 1984, Ritual activity and structured deposition in later neolithic Wessex. In Bradley, R & Gardiner, J (eds) Neolithic Studies. Oxford: British Archaeological Report 133. 189-218.
 
 

Stonehenge in relation to issues of Archaeological Resource Management

Chippindale, C, 1983, What Future for Stonehenge? Antiquity, 57, 172-180

Golding, F N, 1989, Stonghenge past and present. In H Cleere (ed), Archaeological heritage management in the modern world. London: Unwin Hyman. 256-271

Piggott, S, 1959, Stonehenge restored. Antiquity, 33, 50-1

Wainwright, G, 2000, The Stonehenge we deserve. Antiquity, 74, 334-342