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and then exploited by the monument's builders Others have argued that the bluestones have been traced to only the
Preseli Hills through their chemical signature and that they could not have come from elsewhere. Additionally, it has been claimed that there was no known glacier with a course linking
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Burl proposed that
Circles and Henge monuments, far from being astronomical observatories for a class of "astronomer priests" were more likely used for ritualistic practices, connected with death and fertility rites, and ancestor worship, similar to practices observed in other agricultural cultures
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Explains How the Myth of the Stones Transported from South Wales to Salisbury Plain Arose, and Why It Is Wrong".
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Burl, Aubrey. Great Stone Circles: Fables, Fictions, Facts
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Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe
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The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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Rings Of Stone: Excavating The Legacies of Aubrey Burl
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Burl, Aubrey. The Stone Circles of the British Isles.
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Black Barty: Bartholomew Roberts and His Pirate Crew
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