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Prehistoric stone circles: everything you want to know

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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If you've ever visited one of the many prehistoric stone circles that dot the landscape of Britain and Ireland, you've probably come away with lots of questions. How were they built? When were they built? Why were they built? And what on earth were they for? In this 'everything you want to know' episode, we've got the answers – or at least some of them – for you, as Professor Vicki Cummings delves into the history of prehistoric stone circles with David Musgrove. (Ad) Vicki Cummings is co-author of Stone Circles: A Field Guide (Yale University Press, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Circles-Field-Guide/dp/0300235984/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. Listen to our episode with Mike Pitts on Britain’s most famous prehistoric monument, Stonehenge, here:https://link.chtbl.com/iAT9Pelw. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

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If you've ever visited one of the many prehistoric stone circles that docked the landscape of Britain and Ireland, you've probably come away with lots of questions. How were they built? When were they built? Why were they built?

2:07.7

And what on earth were they for? Well, in this Everything You Wanted to Know episode, we've got

2:14.2

the answers for you, or at least some of them. As Professor Vicky Cummings considers the big questions about prehistoric Stone Circles with David Musgrove.

2:24.4

Today I am joined by Professor Vicky Cummings, who is Professor of Neolithic Archaeology at the University of Cardiff and author with Professor Colin Richards of Stone Circles, a field guide, published

2:36.6

by Yale University Press. And today we are going to be talking about stone circles. So, Vicki,

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