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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Stones of Stenness
Mayburgh Henge
King Arthur's Round Table
Little Round Table
Ring of Brodgar
Thornborough Henge 1
Thornborough Henge 2
Thornborough Henge 3
Arbor Low Henge and Stone Circle
Bull Ring Henge
Big Rings Henge
Coneybury Henge
Figsbury Rings
Knowlton Circles
Maumbury Rings
Wilsford Henge
Avebury Henge Bank
Avebury Henge Removed Bank
Centre of the Henge
Durrington Walls Henge
Durrington Walls Timber Circle
Hatfield Barrow
Avebury Henge East Entrance
Avebury Henge North Entrance
Avebury Henge South Entrance
Avebury Henge West Entrance
Henge is in Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Monuments.
Henge. A Henge is a prehistoric monument with a ditch enclosed by a bank. Some have entrances: one, two or four. Some have stone circles inside them. Confusingly Stonehenge is not a Henge. Henges are usually dated around 2400BC typically known as Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age. Examples of Henges include Avebury, Wiltshire [Map] in Wiltshire, Arbor Low Henge and Stone Circle [Map] in Derbyshire. Henges appear to be a peculiarly British monument.
3100BC. The Stones of Stenness [Map] is a Henge and Stone Circles erected around 3100BC based on radio-carbon dating; it isn't clear who undertook the dating? Aubrey Burl, in his book "A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany", states "The setting [Stenness Type Cove] had consisted of three erect stones, two in line side by side, N-S, separated by a narrow gap behind which the third stood like the backstone of a chamber. It is a form of Cove.
Mayburgh Henge [Map] is a Henge.
King Arthur's Round Table is a 90m diameter Henge with a ditch of around 16m. There appears to have been two original entrances.
Little Round Table is a Henge two hundred metres south of King Arthur's Round Table; it is mostly destroyed