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Index
Numbers in italics preceded by pl. indicate color insert plate numbers.
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Aberdeenshire, 131, 206
Aberffraw, 79
Adam and Eve, 28
Adamnán, 183
Aegean Islands, 29, 33
Aegean Sea, 33
Africa, 29, 32, 34, 119, 183
Akkad, 29
Akkadian Empire, 29
Akrotiri, 33
Al Muthanna province, 26
Anasazi, 30
Angkor Wat, 30
Anglesey, 79, 80, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 161, 170, 171, 172, 174, 175, 190, 226, pl. 7, pl. 8
Anglo-Saxons, 44, 49, 137, 138, 142, 191, 192
Annals, 163, 184, 190
Apollo program, 6
Arabia, 30
Arbor Low, 103
Arctic Circle, 36, 37, 47
Arctic, the, 36, 37, 47
Ardgroom, 177
Artemidorus, 189
Arthur, King, 8, 10
Ashgrove, 206, 210
Assur, 29
Assyrian Empire, 29
Athens, 31, 32
Aubrey Holes, 12, 111
Aubrey, John, 10, 12, 111, 186
Auglish, 178
Augustine, 191
Augustus, Emperor, 29, 167
Aulus Plautius, 169
Austria, 152, 153, 155, 156, 192, 193
Avebury, 16, 56, 101, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 136, 139, 140, 141, 144, 147, 148, 186, 214, 219, pl. 15, pl. 18, pl. 22, pl. 23
Ayrshire, 203
Aztecs, 30
Babylon, 29
Babylonian Empire, 29
Bacchus, 223
Ballantrushal, 130
Ballinagree, 221
Ballykeel South, 197, 226
Ballynoe Stone Circle, 75, 90, 92, 94
Bangor, 190
Barclodiad y Gawres, 79, 80, 92
Barnhouse Settlement, 64
Barrow culture, 52, 54, 60, 61, 84
Barrow Plantation, 136
Beaghmore, 177, 179
Beaker people, 72, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 159, 171, 176, 178, 179, 183, 186, 192, 193, 198, 200, 203, 207, 216
Beardown Man, 127
Beckhampton Avenue, 106
Bedd Arthur, 81, 82
Bede, 191
Belgium, 149, 152, 154, 168, 192
Belmullet, 195
Beltany, 177
Betws Fawr, 128
Bevins, Richard, 81
Biddulph Moor, 225, 228, 229,
230
Blakeley Raise Stone Circle, 95
Bluestone Horseshoe, 3, 12, 124
Bluestone Ring, 3, 4, 12, 124
bluestones, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16, 81, 82, 85, 87, 94, 111, 124
Bocan Stone Circle, 177
Bodmin Moor, 9, 50, 96, 151, 195
Bodowyr Burial Chamber, pl. 7
Bolivia, 29
Book of Leinster, The, 184, 187, 194, 221
Book of the Dun Cow, The, 184, 187, 195
Book of the Taking of Ireland, The, 194
Boroughbridge, 132, 143, pl. 21
Boscawen-Un, 113
Boswens Menhir, 128
Boudicca, 172, 173, 174
Bournemouth University, 8, 81
box tombs, 89, 160, 195, 196, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 210, 225, 226, 228
Brackloon, 197, 227
Brahmins, 190, 199
Bredwardine, 128
Bretons, 54
Bridestones, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, pl. 26, pl. 27
Brigid, 221, 222, 224, 225, 228
Bristol Channel, 85
British Museum, 150, 207
Brittany, 45, 46, 48, 53, 54, 58, 144, 145
Bronze Age, 9, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 33, 39, 43, 62, 64, 113, 125, 137, 141, 149, 150, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 162
Bryn Celli Ddu, 92, pl. 8
Bryn Gwyn, 80, 90, 161, 171
Bryn yr Ellyllon, 150, 194, 195
Burne, Charlotte, 229
Burrington, 138
Buxton, 115
Caerleon, 170
Cairn of Barnenez, 45
Cairo, 28
Callanish Stone Circle, 71, 72, 73, 90, 92, 104, 113, 152, 161, pl. 24, pl. 25
Cambodia, 30
Camulodunum, 169, 172
Canfea Stone Circle, 177, 180, 183
Canterbury, 119, 191
Caratacus, 169
Cardiff University, 70
Carn Goedog, 81
Carn Menyn, 8, 81, 86, 111
Carnac, 45
Carrigagulla, 221
Carthage, 29
Cassius Dio, 164, 172, 175
Castell Bryn Gwyn, 171
Castle Ditches, 136
Castlerigg Stone Circle, 74, 90, 92, 95, 125, 161
Çatalhöyük, 40, 41, 42, 47
Cattle Raid of Cooley, The, 187, 194
Celtic Church, 190, 191, 222
Celts, 10, 11, 13, 44, 127, 134, 136, 153, 154, 160, 161, 162, 163, 167, 174, 175, 178, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 189, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 210, 217, 218, 220, 225, 227, 230
Ceredigion, 131
Chaco Canyon, 30
Cheesewring, 8
Cheshire, 225, 227, pl. 26, pl. 27
Chester, 170
Chew Valley, 103
Children of Lir, 186
China, 29, 133
Church Henge, 102, 103, 107, 131, 214
Churchward, James, 34
Ciarán, 184
cistvaens, 150, 151, 152, 153, 160, 176, 177, 179, 194, 203
Clach an Trushal, 130
Claudius, Emperor, 7, 163, 169, 170
Clearbury Ring, 137
Clonakilty, 177
Clonmacnoise, 184
Cogitosus, 222
Colchester, 169
Coliseum, 2, 219
Columba of Terryglass, 184
Cormac mac Cuilennáin, 222
Cornwall, 9, 50, 96, 104, 107, 113, 128, 131, 143, 151, 195, 204, 214
County Clare, 197, 203
County Cork, 177, 221
County Donegal, 177
County Down, 75
County Fermanagh, 177
County Kerry, 177, 221
County Kildare, 197, 221, 224
County Limerick, 178
County Londonderry, 178
County Mayo, 195, 197
County Meath, 77, 86, 91, 195
County Tyrone, 177
County Wexford, 221
Cove, the, 106, 121, pl. 23
Crete, 29, 33
Criccieth, 128
Croghan Erin, 195
cromlechs, 54
Culdaff, 177
Cultoon Stone Circle, 73, 90
Cumbria, 74, 75, 79, 86, 89, 95, 98, 99, 102, 115, 125, 130, 152, 161, 214
Cumwhitton, 130
Curbar Edge, 204
Cursus, the, 84, 114, 141, 142
Cuween Hill, 91
Dartmoor, 96, 113, 119, 127, 128, 143, 152, 206
Darvill, Tim, 8, 81, 118
Description of the World, 188
Deva, 170
Devil’s Arrow, pl. 21
Devonshire, 50, 96, 113, 119, 127, 130, 143, 161, 169, 172, 206
Diodorus Siculus, 161, 168, 188, 200, 201, 217
Doggerland, 48, 192
dolmens, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 60, 67, 89, 91, 112, 136, 147, 150, 203, pl. 7
Doolin, 203
Dorset, 95, 96, 102, 158, 214
Dorset Downs, 96
Down Tor Circle, 113
Downpatrick, 75
Dowth, 91
Dreaming Stone, 80
Drizzlecombe, 128
Drogheda, 77
Drombeg, 177, 183
Druids, 9, 10, 11, 164, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, 180, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 222, 224, 225, 227, 228, 229, 230
Drumskinny Stone Circle, 177, 179
Dublin, 183, 184, 186, 221, 224
Dumfries and Galloway, 74, 75, 86, 89, 95, 99
Dumnonii, 170
Durrington Walls, 84, 85, 97, 111, 147, 148
Eamont Bridge, 115
Easter Island, 30
Egypt, 1, 15, 18, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 42, 58, 149, 224
Egyptian pyramids, 1, 34
En, god, 27, 28
England, 1, 8, 9, 43, 44, 48, 49, 50, 52, 74, 77, 78, 79, 82, 85, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 103, 111, 112, 114, 115, 119, 121, 128, 129, 131, 135, 138, 139, 140, 141, 143, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 158, 160, 161, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 180, 189, 192, 219, 224, 229
English Channel, 45, 144, 154
English Heritage, 5
Enlil, god, 27
Er-Grah, 145
Essex, 169, 195
Exeter, 169
Faroe Islands, 36
Fate of the Children of Lir, The, 186
“Fate of the Sons of Usnech, The,” 187
Fernworthy, 206, 210
Fife, 206
Finstown, 56, 102
Firth of Clyde, 73, 130
Five Wells, 204
Flintshire, 107
Foel Drygarn, 160
Fosse Way, 169, 174
France, 9, 44, 45, 47, 145, 152, 161, 168, 169, 192
Frankenbury Camp, 137
Franks, 181
Freemasons, 10
Gallic Wars, The, 163, 168, 187
Garden of Eden, 28
Garn Goch, 160
Gaul, 168, 169, 174, 175
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 7
Geographica, 188
Germany, 44, 48, 152, 153, 156, 167, 168, 169, 192, 193
Ġgantija, 38, 39, 42
Gidleigh, 96, 119
Gidleigh Moor, 119
Gildas, 190, 191, 225
Glandore, 177
Glastonbury, 138, 139, 191
Göbekli Tepe, 41, 42, 47
Gop Cairn, 107, 108, 136
Gors Fawr, 80, 90, 92
Goths, 181
Gourock, 130
Gozo, 38
Granny Kempock Stone, 130
Great Wall of China, 2
Greece, 15, 18, 29, 32, 33, 169, 214
Gregory the Great, 191
Grooved Ware culture, 57, 58, 60, 62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 80, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93
grooved ware pottery, 57, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 75, 79, 80, 82, 84, 88, 89, 94
Grovely C
astle, 136
Gunnerkeld, 125
Hails, Fred, 230
Hallstatt culture, 156, 159, 192, 198
Harappan civilization, 28, 29, 43
Harbourne Man, 127
Hart Tor, 128
Hebrides islands, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 87, 89, 95, 99
Heel Stone, 9, 14, 92, 117, 123
henge, 16, 45, 54, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 120, 122, 135, 138, 139, 143, 148, 161, 171, 221
Hereford, 128
Hertfordshire, 172
hillforts, 113, 134, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 153, 154, 155, 158, 160, 167, 181
Hindu religion, 34, 199
Hinduism, 34, 190, 199
Hippolytus, 188, 190, 199, 201, 213
Histories, The, 163
History of the Ancient Parish of Leek, A, 229
History of the English Church, 191
History of the Kings of Britain, 8
Hittite Empire, 155
Hittites, 29
Holyhead, 171
Homo sapiens, 20, 21, 47
Hurlers, 104, 107, 214
Hyperborea, 36
ice age, 46
Iceland, 36
Incas, 2, 30
India, 22, 23, 29, 34, 35, 36, 149, 190, 199
Indian Ocean, 34, 35, 36
Indus Valley, 28, 38, 42, 149
Inett, John, 191
International Space Station, 6
Iona, 183
Iran, 29
Iraq, 23, 26, 29
Ireland, 2, 8, 43, 44, 45, 48, 50, 60, 61, 67, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 86, 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 99, 110, 130, 132, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 190, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 203, 216, 217, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225, 226, 227,228, 229, 230
Irish Annals, 184
Irish Sea, 79, 91, 176, 190, 225
Iron Age, 113, 134, 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 178, 179, 180, 183, 195, 196, 202, 203, 205
Isca, 169
Islam, 15, 18, 30
Island of Mull, 73
Isle of Arran, 73, 95, 99, 107, 161, 214
Isle of Islay, 73, 75
Isle of Lewis, 71, 72, 73, 95, 104, 113, 130, 161, pl. 24, pl. 25
Israel, 29
Ixer, Robert, 81
Japan, 30
Julius Caesar, 7, 161, 163, 166, 168,
169, 187, 188, 189, 194, 199, 200, 201, 208, 210, 213, 217
Kafun period, 30
Kenmare, 177, 183, 221
Kent, 52
Keswick, 74
Khufu, 6
Kildare, 197, 221, 222, 224
Kilgowan, 197, 227
Killiney, 183, 221, 227
Killiney Ring, 221
Kiltale, 195
Kinniside, 95
Knap of Howar, 61, 63, 66
Knossos, 33
Knowlton, 214
Knowth, 79, 91