New megalithic CD-ROMs: Avebury, Ireland, Stones QTVR and a competition

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 15 December 2001 Page Views: 1553

I have an amazing bit of news - announcing not two, but three new megalithic CD-ROMs, and a competition to win all of them!

Avebury Panoramic Tour by Pete Glastonbury

A unique new CD-ROM including over 180 full screen Panoramic scenes covering all of the Avebury complex and beyond, including most of the megalithic sites in the region.

Using hot spot links you can travel all along the Kennett Avenue to the Sanctuary from the comfort of your own home via your PC. Take a virtual tour along the Beckhampton Avenue to the most recent excavations at the Longstones Field in August 2000. View Silbury Hill from various vantage points around the landscape, including unique video footage and details of the latest repairs and restorations. Also: local barrows tour, lost stone circles, Stanton Drew, the Rollright Stones, Devils Quoits, Stonehenge and the surrounding barrows. Dozens of the Cotswold-Severn Chambered Tombs including the magnificent Stoney Littleton in Somerset.

If that wasn't enough the CD-ROM also includes a mass of hard-to-obtain archive material: Black & white photos from 1870 onwards including Alexander Keillers restorations in the 1920's. Most of John Aubrey's Book 'Monumenta Britannica' and William Stukeley's Book 'Abury' in PDF format plus over 350 rare antiquarian prints, photos and woodcuts.

'Irish Genius' Megalithic Ireland by Anthony Weir

A CD-ROM with over 600 images of prehistoric tombs, stone circles, standing-stones, sweathouses, cross-pillars, cross-slabs, ogam stones, bullauns and phallic pillars PLUS megaliths in France (beyond Brittany) and mediaeval exhibitionist carvings.

Anthony writes: The core of this CD is the gazetteer of Irish megaliths, enveloped by pages which put the types of monument into context. Most Irish guides concentrate on the passage-tombs of counties Meath and Sligo, and give no idea of the variety of Irish field monuments all over the island, nor of their sculptural beauty and the beauty of their locations. Leave the banalised tourist routes for a quieter, more hidden Ireland away from the coasts, famous passage-tombs & monastic cites.

The result of over 30 years of research in the field by Anthony Weir, poet and author of "Early Ireland, a Field Guide", and "Images of Lust: sexual carvings in mediaeval churches"

Stone Circles QTVR by Tom Bullock

As a preview to the next version of his Stone Circles CD-ROM, Tom has put together a special QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality) edition.

Tom writes: this new CD-ROM is a stand-alone presentation of stone circles in the British Isles. It contains Panoramic movies of over 80 stone circles
distributed throughout Britain and Ireland, as well as descriptions and important features of each. Below each movie is a static panoramic image of the circle, from which the movie was originally made. There is a good mixture of well known and usually inaccessible sites that I have made special arrangements to visit.

Each page includes details and a brief guide to the site. WWW links to Andy Burnham's Megalithic Portal are included for further research and updates. There is an excellent upgrade offer for purchasers of Tom's previous CD-ROM.

Each of the CD-ROMs are different in style, but all contain stunning photographic work and years of distilled effort by the respective authors. True labours of love, each.

The authors are all looking for retail stockists. Contact us for trade pricing. If you are a museum or similar outlet, we challenge you to put something intelligent in your gift shop for a change!

Other new products at megalithic.co.uk include

* A new range of hand-made silk scarves with Pictish designs
* Stonehenge kits you construct with real stone - 'Stonecraft'
* More books, including the excellent 'Rock Around the Peak' Derbyshire
stones guide by Victoria and Paul Morgan

Submit your comments and photos to the Megalithic Portal

We now have almost 500 images of megalithic and other prehistoric sites from all over Europe in our eGallery, stretching as far as Malta and Tunisia contributed by our regulars and other visitors. Lots more arrive weekly. Add this to the hundreds of photos in the main Portal 'Photo Pages' and you have a unique storehouse of information of many hundreds of megabytes. The VRs on the CD-ROMs above add another dimension to this archive.

We're becoming the site of choice for photo editors looking for images of ancient Britain - all enquiries are passed on straight away to the photographer, with no commission involved.

Competition

The biggest prize we've ever put together:
Three complete sets of these:

Pete Glastonbury's Avebury Panoramic Tour
Anthony Weir's 'Irish Genius' Megalithic Ireland
Tom Bullock's Stone Circles Tour CD-ROM
Tom Bullock's Stone Circles QTVR CD-ROM
Rock Around the Peak Book by Victoria and Paul Morgan
Avebury by Evelyn Francis Book
Stonehenge by Robin Heath Book

This prizes are worth almost £100 ($140) each and we're giving away three sets in total. I'll try and get signed copies for as many as I can too.

To enter the competition, answer the following question - e-mail the answer:
Name any contributor to the Megalithic portal eGallery. The closing date is the 26th December 2001 and winners will be notified then. We respect your privacy and do not pass on e-mail addresses to anyone else. If you do not wish to receive occasional updates and offers please let me know.

That's me done (and 'done in' too I think!) - have a good New Year from all
of us!
Cheers,
Andy

* For Christmas, please order 2-3 days in advance of last posting days which
are:
UK: 21st Dec (we send out 1st class)
W Europe: 14th December
USA: Last airmail date was 7th December, sorry, however Tom Bullock ships his CD-ROMs to US destinations from California. We will do our best to ship to you ASAP.

Contributor Bio for Andy B: Megalithic Portal Founding Editor.

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