The Megalithic Portal is the world's most-visited standing-stone
website. It was set up by chartered engineer Andy Burnham in 2001
as a forum for megalith enthusiasts and to document, publicise and
protect our prehistoric heritage, much of which is under threat
today from development and intensive agriculture. This interactive
website, run by Andy and a team of around a dozen other amateur
editors, has input from thousands of contributors from all over the
world, including professional photographers and archaeologists.
Since 2001 they have assembled a worldwide resource of over 50,000
ancient sites and 170,000 images, serving half a billion pages.
Vicki Cummings is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of
Central Lancashire. Over the last decade she has excavated a series
of Neolithic monuments, and is the author of a number of books and
articles, includingThe Neolithic of Britain and Ireland(Routledge,
2017).
"A wonderful guide to the many megaliths of Britain's Neolithic and
Bronze Age."
--Mike Parker Pearson, Professor of British Later Prehistory at UCL
'[A]s if by magic, along came this remarkable guide, a glorious
celebration of standing stones [...] attractively laid out by
region with many good photos [...] It's well done, but there is
something else which makes it extraordinary. Its editor is the
founder and editor of the Megalithic Portal, "the world's
most-visited standing-stone website." He has devised the book's
contents around what the website has shown to be most popular, and
the whole thing is a collaborative venture of browsers, travellers,
visionaries and scholars, all given free rein. Vicki Cummings has
written a long, and very good introduction, and other well-known
archaeologists pop up among the geomancers, dowsers and bog waders
with no favours [...] The reader is left to judge for themself,
with powerful effect.'
--British Archaeology magazine
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