Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This photographic survey of the megalithic sites of England and Wales has been conducted by David Corio with the eye of a great landscape photographer as well as the passion of an explorer of the ruins of ancient culture. These photographs go to the heart of prehistoric Britain and reveal a profound sense of 'place'." "In an illuminating essay on the antiquitarian tradition Lai Ngan Corio describes how the megaliths became the subject of extensive survey from the sixteenth century onwards. The exploration of the sites was coupled with a search for a sense of national culture and identity. David Corio's photographs continue that sense of survey that was so prevalent in the great illustrated books of the seventeenth century, but photographs as opposed to engravings now offer a sense of the surface and tactile quality of the stone itself. The photographs point to the beginning of architecture in Britain and endow the landscape of Britain with both a sense of the sacred and a national identity."--Jacket

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