Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond / edited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill and David Field.

• Superior document: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 10
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Leary, Jim.; Darvill, Timothy.; Field, David, 1950-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 10.
• Physical Description: xii, 260 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
• Notes: Papers from a seminar held Nov. 3, 2008 at the British Museum.

Table of Contents

Design, geometry, and the metamorphosis of monuments / David Field -- " --a place where they tried their criminals" : Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross / Kenneth Brophy -- Scotland's Neolithic non-megalithic round mounds : new dates, problems, and potential / Alison Sheridan -- Tynwald Hill and the round mounds of the Isle of Man / Timothy Darvill -- Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire / Alex Gibson and Alex Bayliss -- "One of the most interesting barrows ever examined" : Liffs Low revisited / Roy Loveday and Alistair Barclay -- Neolithic round barrows on the Cotswolds / Timothy Darvill -- Silbury Hill : a monument in motion / Jim Leary -- The brood of Silbury? : a remote look at some other sizeable Wessex mounds / Martyn Barber ... [et al.] -- The mystery of the hill / Jonathan Last -- The formative henge : speculations drawn from the circular traditions of Wales and adjacent counties / Steve Burrow -- Monumentality and inclusion in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland / Geraldine Stout -- Round mounds containing portal tombs / Tatjana Kytmannow -- Native American mound building traditions / Peter Topping -- The round mound is not a monument / Tim Ingold.