How to Build Stonehenge

Drawing on a lifetime's study and a decade of new research, archaeologist Mike Pitts explores the mystery of how Stonehenge was built. How it was constructed is perhaps the central question about Stonehenge and likely the most common query from its manyvisitors. Yet it's one of the least-researched aspects of the site, which author Mike Pitts aims to correct in this new book. With a unique focus on the monument itself, How to Build Stonehenge describes the site as it is today, what we know about the different types of stone, how they were carved and positioned to create the ultimate in megalithic architecture, and how this was taken down and left to ruin until the decay was arrested in the twentieth century with substantial restoration works--