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User not Registered |  Posted 20-07-2004 at 02:33
I have now finished The Language of Stones by Robert Carter. It was set partly at the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. Pretty exciting. 
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User not Registered | Posted 23-08-2004 at 11:32
Ruth Rendell's The Master of the Moor is set in a landscape which includes a stone avenue 'The foinmen' which is referred to several times in the story. This includes a sunset (I think - could be sunrise) visit when a light event (falls down the middle of the avenue, lights the end stone) at Beltane. And doesn't one of Sherlock Holmes stories feature a circle on the moor - it should be the Hound and Dartmoor, but I'm not sure it is!
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| Posted 24-08-2004 at 16:35
[ And doesn't one of Sherlock Holmes stories feature a circle on the moor - it should be the Hound and Dartmoor, but I'm not sure it is!
Liz
Holmes and Watson take shelter in one of the hut circles of the Grimspound while chasing the hound one night.
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| Posted 25-08-2004 at 00:44
Mark Chadbourne (the 'Age of Misrule' series?)has his characters racing around various sites in England, trying to save the country from sundry nasties.
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User not Registered | Posted 31-08-2004 at 09:27
I don't know if this quite counts, but one of my favourites (shelved with my other ancient site books) is in Elmer's colours, by David McKee. Elmer is a brightly coloured elephant who does various things for toddlers/young children - (board books ). The picture for 'red' is a sunset picture which includes ... well I think you need to look at it, but although some young children think it is row of trees and a small hill, it clearly isn't.
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| Posted 01-09-2004 at 22:04
I must be losing it not to have thought of this earlier.Every book by PHIL RICKMAN.They are set in Wales or the border and include lots of local legends and sites. Plus he is a big Nick Drake fan.Well worth reading and they normally include a list of books used in his research.
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| Posted 01-09-2004 at 22:22
Yep and I was forgetting Mary Stewart's trilogy on Merlin - Crystal Cave, Hollow Hills and Last Enchantment- the best ever Arthurian novels. Contains episodes at Stonehenge, Carnac and other sites.
Ditto for Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy.
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| Posted 02-09-2004 at 20:47
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On 2004-05-23 18:52, Vicky wrote:
There's a new King Arthur/Merlin legend book out which has Long Meg and her Daughters on the cover - The Language of Stones by Robert Carter - I have only just started reading it so can't comment as to how good it is yet.
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I haven't come across this book, was it any good Vicky?
I am always looking for a good fictional read. Currently I am reading the Druid King by Norman Spinrad, and while its not as emotionally exciting as "Stonehenge", it does throw in some interesting ideas about ancient oak trees, the druid tree of knowledge. The book is based in Gaul, around 60BC, during the Roman colonisation.
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|  Posted 09-09-2004 at 15:22
In Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series some stone cicles and cairns are be founded.
I don't know if they exist.
Take a look at:http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411369
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| Posted 11-09-2004 at 15:58
In Andre Norton's Witchworld Simon tregarth escapes Earth and travels to the Witchworld from Cornwall via the Siege Perilous stone. Then throughout the Witchworld novels standing stones and stone circlesare either places of power for good ar evil or are gateways to other places.
William Horwood's Duncton Wood has a standing stone I do believe.
Marvel comics has used Stonehenge as a place of magical power that has attracted characters from the Marvel Universe like Dr. Strange, Mordred, Morgan La Fey, Dr. Doom and many many others. Captain Britain received his powers at a fiction stone circle. (Issues to many to list).
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| Posted 12-09-2004 at 16:29
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On 2004-05-22 22:42, Thorgrim wrote:
Thinking about favourite books, I wondered why stones and other prehistoric sites don't feature more in novels. Off the top of my head I could only come up with these:
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell, Fellowship of the Ring (barrows) by Tolkien, Owl Service (Stone of Goronwy and the Blodeuedd legend) by Alan Garner, Over Sea Under Stone by Susan Cooper, Sarum by Edward Rutherford, Before Adam by Jack London - then (apart from Jean Auel's prehistoric soap operas) I came to a halt and could only dimly remember the odd short story by HG Wells and some books by Henry Treece. Any more you can name? 
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| Posted 12-09-2004 at 16:30
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On 2004-05-22 22:42, Thorgrim wrote:
Thinking about favourite books, I wondered why stones and other prehistoric sites don't feature more in novels. Off the top of my head I could only come up with these:
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell, Fellowship of the Ring (barrows) by Tolkien, Owl Service (Stone of Goronwy and the Blodeuedd legend) by Alan Garner, Over Sea Under Stone by Susan Cooper, Sarum by Edward Rutherford, Before Adam by Jack London - then (apart from Jean Auel's prehistoric soap operas) I came to a halt and could only dimly remember the odd short story by HG Wells and some books by Henry Treece. Any more you can name?
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Anonymous
User not Registered | Posted 14-09-2004 at 15:52
Scott Peck, author of 'The Road Less Travelled' wrote a book called 'In Search of Stones' which is a story of his three-week trip through the countryside of Wales, England and Scotland looking for ancient megalithic stones which became an obsession for him.
Also there is a new book coming out soon probably on Amazon called 'The Romantics' based on the work of Charles Webster.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/charleswebster
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|  Posted 14-09-2004 at 19:57
I found 'In Search of Stones' largely enjoyable, though more of a journal / diary, and not fiction.
The exploration of philosophical and existential issues made for stimulating stuff for my grey matter, but his near bragging "I'm a really famous Christian and I've had lots of other women other than my wife" grew a bit tiring... but yes, a good read. 
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| Posted 14-09-2004 at 23:59
Agreed - I found F Scott Peck very irritating and didn't finish that book. Here's a good one:
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we originally wanted the record fronted by real daleks. we could not get permission. it was after that we came up with our car idea. we then wanted to smash the car into stone henge or have a helicopter place it on two of the vertical stones whose horizontal was missing. we thought of dragging it to the top of silbury hill, digging a hole and tipping the car in, nose first, with about four feet stuck in the ground and the rest stuck in the air, so that it looked like we had just arrived from outer space.
one of us is sort of related to one of the lesbians that absailed into the house of commons in early '88. they advised us against digging a hole in silbury hill as it is sort of special to them.
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http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual12.html
A wild read - Start here
http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual.html
Bill Drummond is notorious for numerous daft stunts such as burning a million pounds and for the song Julian Cope is dead, (I shot him in the head.)
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User not Registered |  Posted 07-11-2004 at 15:29
don't know if it counts but remeber in Mist over Pendel, can't remember the author just now, a baby is found dead in a stone circle. The hero if I am correct thinks it is part of a black magic ritual.
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|  Posted 28-12-2004 at 01:34
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On 2004-05-22 22:42, Thorgrim wrote:
Thinking about favourite books, I wondered why stones and other prehistoric sites don't feature more in novels. Off the top of my head I could only come up with these:
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell, Fellowship of the Ring (barrows) by Tolkien, Owl Service (Stone of Goronwy and the Blodeuedd legend) by Alan Garner, Over Sea Under Stone by Susan Cooper, Sarum by Edward Rutherford, Before Adam by Jack London - then (apart from Jean Auel's prehistoric soap operas) I came to a halt and could only dimly remember the odd short story by HG Wells and some books by Henry Treece. Any more you can name?
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I know this isn't a book, but there was a film on TV tonight (27th/28th December 2004) called 'Still Crazy' (199 , about a 70s rock band who reform their group in later years. Billy Connolly, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall and Jimmy Nail were in it. One scene showed them at Avebury, and the shots were pretty good. The only problem was that I came into the room during that section, so don't know how really good it was! (The bit I saw was excellent.)
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| Posted 28-12-2004 at 01:38
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On 2004-12-28 01:34, AngieLake wrote:
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On 2004-05-22 22:42, Thorgrim wrote:
Thinking about favourite books, I wondered why stones and other prehistoric sites don't feature more in novels. Off the top of my head I could only come up with these:
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell, Fellowship of the Ring (barrows) by Tolkien, Owl Service (Stone of Goronwy and the Blodeuedd legend) by Alan Garner, Over Sea Under Stone by Susan Cooper, Sarum by Edward Rutherford, Before Adam by Jack London - then (apart from Jean Auel's prehistoric soap operas) I came to a halt and could only dimly remember the odd short story by HG Wells and some books by Henry Treece. Any more you can name?
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I know this isn't a book, but there was a film on TV tonight (27th/28th December 2004) called 'Still Crazy' (199, about a 70s rock band who reform their group in later years. Billy Connolly, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall and Jimmy Nail were in it. One scene showed them at Avebury, and the shots were pretty good. The only problem was that I came into the room during that section, so don't know how really good it was! (The bit I saw was excellent.)
Why did that 'embarrassed face' come up in the date of the film???!!!! It should have read nineteen-ninety-eight! (oops! I accidentally put a dash behind the date - or else the website has done it for me!)
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| Posted 30-12-2004 at 20:53
As we're now including films,there's the two foot high trilithon being danced around by the "little people" in Spinal Tap.
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| Posted 02-01-2005 at 20:01
Found two more on New Years Eve.The new King Arthur film has Gwyn. and Arthur being married in a circle. Then,and I'm sure no portalphiles missed this,the bevy of beauties dancing naked around stones and a trilithon on Summerisle in the Wicker Man.
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