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A Henge Monument at Westwell, near Burford, Oxon. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1949

A Matter of Time. An Archaeological Survey of the River Gravels of England. By The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). H.M.S.O. (1960), pp. 64, 10 figs., 13 pls. Price 10s. 6d

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A Middle Bronze Age Barrow at Cassington, Oxon. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1946

A Pond Barrow at Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorset

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in January 1951

A Romano-British Potters' Field at Cowley, Oxon. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1941

AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN CAERNARVONSHIRE. By THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. Vol. I: EAST. London: H.M.S.O., 1956. pp. lxxviii + 215, 188 text-figures, 100 plates. 65s. Vol. II: CEN

Alexander Thom: Megalithic Sites in Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 174 pp., 77 figs. 63s

An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Nassington, Northants

Andrew Sherratt(ed.): The Cambridge encyclopaedia of archaeology. Cambridge: University Press, 1980. 495 pp., 354 diagrams, maps and plates. £18.50

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in July 1981

Archaeological Notes ⬇️

scientific article published in 1945

Archaeological Notes ⬇️

scientific article published in 1943

Archaeological Notes ⬇️

scientific article published in 1948

Archaeological Notes, 1946 ⬇️

scientific article published in 1946

Archaeological Notes, 1947 ⬇️

scientific article published in 1946

Archaeological Notes, 1949 ⬇️

scientific article published in 1949

Archaeological Sites on Port Meadow, Oxford ⬇️

scientific article published in 1942

Aubrey Burl: Prehistoric astronomy and ritual. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1983. 56 pp., 16 pls., 5 figs. £1.95

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published November 1983 in Antiquity

Barrows excavated by William Stukeley near Stonehenge, 1723-4 ⬇️

article published in 1985

British prehistory and the radiocarbon revolution

C. A. Newham and Stonehenge

C. A. Newham: The astronomical significance of Stonehenge. Leeds: John Blackburn, 1972. 32 pp., 7 figs. Copies obtainable from the publisher, Old Run Road, Leeds LS10 2AA. UK: 30p; USA: $1.50 (both post free); Stonehenge bookshop: 25p

David Fraser: Land and society in neolithic Orkney. Oxford: BAR No. 117, 1983. 2. vols. 594 pp., 297 figs. and tables. £24.00.Colin Renfrew (ed): The prehistory of Orkney. Edinburgh: University Press, 1985. 352 pp., 90 pls. (25 in colour). £20.00

article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published March 1986 in Antiquity

Decoder Misled?

scientific article published in Nature

Douglas C. Heggie: Megalithic science. Ancient mathematics and astronomy in Northwest Europe. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981. 256 pp., 111 pls. and figs. £12.00

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published July 1982 in Antiquity

Excavations in Barrow Hills Field, Radley, Berks, 1944-45 ⬇️

scientific article published in 1952

Excavations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Complex at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1947–1952 and 1981

scientific article published in 1992

Francis Hitching: Earth magic. London: Cassell, 1976. 196 pp., 50 figs. £4.50

Further Radiocarbon Dates for Stonehenge

G. J. Wainwright: Coygan Camp: a Prehistoric, Romano-British and Dark Age Settlement in Carmarthenshire. Cardiff: Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1967. 225 pp., 10 pls., 49 figs. 60s. (paper cover) or 70s. (hard cover) from Cambrian Archaeologic

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G. T. Schwarz: Archäologische Feldmethode. Thun: Ott Verlag, 1967. 220 pp., 30 figs., 12 pls. DM. 24.30

I. Ll. Foster and Glyn Daniel (eds.): Prehistoric and Early Wales. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. 244 pp., 27 figs., 27 pls. 60s

Ian Hodder (ed.): Symbolic and structural archaeology. Cambridge: University Press, 1982. 196 pp., 66 figs. £19.50

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in March 1984

Interpreting Stonehenge

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-1

John Alexander The directing of archaeological excavations. London: John Baker, 1970; New York, Humanities Press, 1970. 304 pp., 22 pls., 70 figs. £4.50; £13.50

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in January 1971

John Barnatt: Stone circles of the Peak. London: Turnstone Books, 1978. 208 pp., 113 figs. £4.95

John Coles: Field archaeology in Britain. London: Methuen, 1972. 279 pp., 8 pls., 78 figs. £3.50 cloth; £1.75 paper

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John Edwin Wood: Sun, moon and standing stones. Oxford, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. 230 pp., 24 pls., 79 figs. £6.95

LYLES HILL. A LATE NEOLITHIC SITE IN COUNTY ANTRIM. By E. Estyn Evans. pp. VIII+71, 8 plates, 26 figs. Belfast: H. M. Stationery Office, 1953

Megalithic architecture

journal article; published in Nature on 1977-12-01

Millin Bay: A Late Neolithic Cairn in Co. Down. By A. E. P. Collins and D. M. Waterman. 10¾ × 8½. Pp. 84 + 19 pls. + 17 figs. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1955. 18s.

Moonshine on Stonehenge

Neolithic Engineering

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in December 1961

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, 1886–1957. By Clark Grahame. Pp. 16, 1 pl. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the British Academy, XLIV (1959), 281–96. Oxford University Press, 1959. Price 2s. 6d.Vere Gordon Childe, 1892–1957. By Piggott Stuart. P

Peter Lancaster Brown: Megaliths, myths and men: an introduction to astro-archaeology. Poole: Blandford Press, 1976. 324 pp., 67 pls., 59 figs. £4.75

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in March 1977

Practical Archaeology by Graham Webster. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1963. 176 pp., 8 pls., 20 figs. 21s

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in December 1965

Prehistoric Avebury

scientific article published in Nature

Radiocarbon dates for the Stonehenge Avenue

article published in 1976

Recent excavations at Stonehenge

article by Richard J. C. Atkinson & J.C. Evans published November 1978 in Antiquity

Reductio ad Perspicuum

Reviews

Reviews of Books

SURVEYING FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS. By D. H. Fryer. University of Durham, 1960. pp. 36, 50 figures, 1 plate, 4to. Obtainable from the Museum of Antiquities, King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1. 2s. 10d. post free

article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published December 1960 in Antiquity

Science in Archaeology. Edited by Brothwell Don and Higgs Eric. Pp. 595, 92 figs., 32 pls. Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. Price 90s

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in December 1965

Silbury Hill

Silbury Hill

chapter published in 1978

Silbury Hill, 1968

Silbury Hill, 1969–70

Some new measurements on Stonehenge ⬇️

Stonehenge in the Light of Recent Research

scientific article published in Nature

Stonehenge: a review

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Stuart Piggott: William Stukeley–an eighteenth-century antiquary. London: Thames and Hudson, 2nd ed., 1985. 191 pp., 32 pls., 12 figs. £14.00

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THE TESTIMONY OF THE SPADE. By Geoffrey Bibby. Collins, London, 1957. pp. 448, 63 figures, 32 plates. 30s. net

The Akeman Street near Crawley, Oxon. ⬇️

scientific article published in 1942

The Date of Silbury Hill

article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published September 1969 in Antiquity

The Date of Stonehenge.

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in December 1953

The Dorset Cursus

The Excavation of two additional holes at Stonehenge, 1950, and new evidence for the date of the Monument

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The Meare Lake Village. A full description of the excavations and the relics from the eastern half of the west village, 1910–1933. By Harold St. George Gray, and Arthur Bulleid. (deceased). Vol.ii. 12¼×9¾. Pp. xi + 175. Privately printed at Taun

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The National Grid ⬇️

scientific article published in 1948

Wayland's Smithy

scientific article published in June 1965

Wessex before the Celts. By J. F. S. Stone. 8 × 5¾. Pp. 207 + 72 pls. + 22 figs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1958. 25s

What is Archaeology? by Edward Pyddoke. London: John Baker, 1964. 64 pp., 11 pls., 5 figs. 9s. 6d

scholarly article by Richard J. C. Atkinson published in December 1965

Worms and Weathering

article published in Antiquity in 1957

Études Archéologiques edited by Paul Courbin. Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1963. 231 pp., 21 pls., 14 figs. Frs. 23

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