• Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl FSA HonFSA Scot (24 September 1926 – 8 April 2020) was a British archaeologist best known for his studies into megalithic monuments...
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  • player Aubrey Burl (1926–2020), British archaeologist Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa (1918–2009), British soldier and television executive Aubrey Casewell...
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    ISBN 978-1-84519-130-6. Burl, Aubrey (1979). Prehistoric Avebury. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02368-5. Burl, Aubrey (2002). Prehistoric...
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  • England; 81 in Wales; 49 in Brittany (France); and 6 in the Channel Isles. Aubrey Burl records six sites in the Channel Islands, four on Guernsey and two on...
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  • English "cromlech". Also, more recently in English, scholars such as Aubrey Burl use "cromlech" as a synonym for "megalithic stone circle". Almendres...
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  • burl or burr is a deformed outgrowth on a tree trunk. Burl may also refer to: Burl (given name) Burl (EP), 1986 EP by American band Killdozer Aubrey Burl...
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    toward circular monuments had symbolic associations. As the archaeologist Aubrey Burl stated, "There was a change from the cramped, gloomy chamber of a tomb...
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    axial stone circles. They are believed by some archaeologists such as Aubrey Burl to be associated with rituals in which moonlight played a central role...
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    in Wessex. A funerary purpose is thought to be likely, especially by Aubrey Burl. He thought that such sites in Cumbria are analogous to the kerbs that...
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    simple use of square and circle geometry. Aubrey Burl also notes that the azimuth of the Heel Stone, beyond the Aubrey Circle, marks the midpoint in the swing...
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  • Written by the prominent English archaeologist and megalithic specialist Aubrey Burl, it was first published in 1981 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Each chapter...
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    climate of the Hyperboreans is so mild they grow two crops a year." Aubrey Burl noted that other parts of Diodorus' description make it a poor fit for...
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    posts of the Sanctuary are marked by concrete markers. The archaeologist Aubrey Burl noted that the site is "visually unexciting", offering only a "dull and...
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    megalithic ring lies to the right of the path. Megalithic specialist Aubrey Burl called Swinside "the loveliest of all the circles" in north-western Europe...
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    ISSN 2397-334X. PMC 6520225. PMID 30988490. Aubrey Burl, Prehistoric Stone Circles (Shire, 2001) (In Burl's Stonehenge (Constable, 2006), he notes, cf...
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  • Shakespeare's "knowing imaginings", rather than allusions to actual events. Aubrey Burl, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and commentator on prehistoric...
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    slaughtered for the feasting that would accompany the ceremonies. — Aubrey Burl (1981) Rites of the Gods. Even in the 18th century the site was still...
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    and in some cases have been destroyed. As noted by the archaeologist Aubrey Burl, these destroyed examples have left behind "only frustrating descriptions...
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  • removal of different stones. Riley & Wilson-North 2001, p. 27. Burl 1993, p. 27. Burl, Aubrey (1993). From Carnac to Callanish: The Prehistoric Stone Rows...
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  • In 1877 there were still seven stones standing in the centre; when Aubrey Burl detailed the cairn in 2005, there were only five left, one of which has...
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    Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 9 July 2014. Burl, Aubrey (1979). Rings of Stone. London: Francis Lincoln. Burl, Aubrey (2000). The Stone Circles of Britain,...
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    Stonehenge: A History in Photographs, English Heritage ISBN 1-85074-895-0 Aubrey Burl (1979), Prehistoric Avebury, Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-02368-5...
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    located in the Dumfries and Galloway council area. It is compiled from Aubrey Burl's 'County Gazetteer of the Stone Circles in Britain, Ireland and Brittany'...
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    have engulfed two of the megaliths in the circle. The archaeologist Aubrey Burl noted that while "this petite ring should be a delight to see", it was...
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    Stones, a 557 page tome published posthumously with the assistance of Aubrey Burl in 1990. Thom died on 7 November 1985 at Fort William hospital, aged 91...
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    their monuments to have solar or lunar alignments. Megalithic specialist Aubrey Burl in 1976 suggested that the King Stone had been a landmark or guidepost...
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    archaeologists continue to refer to this structure as a henge; for example, Aubrey Burl classifies the ditch as a Class II henge; one that has two opposing entrances...
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    as twenty-six menhirs that suffered at the hands of stone-breakers. Aubrey Burl suggested twenty eight, set up on opposite facing pairs and suggests...
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  • 1948) Adrian V. Stokes, British computer scientist (b. 1945) April 8 Aubrey Burl, British archaeologist (b. 1926) Robert L. Carroll, American and Canadian...
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  • the Edge magazine in 1998 before itself ceasing publication in 2003. Aubrey Burl, Ed Krupp, John Michell, Paul Devereux, Jeremy Harte,[relevant?] Rodney...
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