A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany

Aubrey Burl's A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany is a comprehensive scholarly gazetteer cataloging known stone circles across the region, written by one of the most prolific specialist archaeologists of British prehistoric monuments, drawing on decades of site survey and excavation literature. Its authority as a reference for site locations, dimensions and known excavation history is well established and widely used by both specialists and informed visitors. As a descriptive catalog rather than a single interpretive argument, it is comparatively cautious about asserting the specific ritual or astronomical purpose of any given circle, a question where evidence is often genuinely limited and where Burl's own more interpretive works elsewhere are more willing to venture stronger claims than this guide's inventory format allows.