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Who built Stonehenge? Over four thousand years after it was built, Stonehenge continues to intrigue, attracting a million international visitors every year. Now ancient scrolls unearthed near Dublin reveal the secrets of Stonehenge and an archaeologist blogs about their meaning in this compelling e-novel. Based on known archaeological discoveries, The Stonehenge Scrolls spins a tale that could just possibly be true.
Myrddin, a kind of prehistoric engineer, supervises the hauling of giant stones that will be used to build a new monument at the Sacred Circle, an astronomical site long revered by the five clans in the territory. He also fathers a daughter, Sulis, born on the day the sun rises highest in the sky.
Her auspicious birthday foretells greatness, and Myrddin becomes smitten by the little girl with red hair, the sign of a Monument Builder. The precocious Sulis learns about the healing qualities of plants from her grandmother Ogwyn, the clan medicine woman, and cures the impetuous young chieftain Gwyr. But she has her own ideas when it comes to the Sacred Circle.
Is the oral history recorded in the scrolls plausible? In alternating chapters of The Stonehenge Scrolls, archaeologist Maeve Haley’s blog cites the evidence and speculates on the meaning of Stonehenge.
“A fine saga, The Stonehenge Scrolls is driven by drama and tight, involving writing and is a pick for any who enjoyed Auel's 'Earth's Children' series and similar historical novels.” --Midwest Book Review.
Author K.P. Robbins has studied stone circles, dolmens and cairns in England, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and Ireland. “The first time I saw Stonehenge, I was hooked,” she says. “In my travels I met many people also fascinated with Neolithic stone monuments. I hope The Stonehenge Scrolls not only appeals to them but also attracts new interest in Stonehenge.”
The Stonehenge Scrolls edition by KP Robbins Literature Fiction eBooks
As an inveterate tumulus climber and stele observer, I was immediately taken with Karen P. Robbins' hypothesis on the construction of Stonehenge in her novel, Stonehenge Scrolls.Stonehenge, for those few who don't know about it, is a collection of huge stones, arranged in rings in such a way that the sun casts shadows and appears in perfect positions at various times of the year. It's been thought to be a monument to religion, and it's the largest of such stone structures in the British Isles. How it got there was a mystery, examined and studied by historians and archeologists for many years.
But Stonehenge isn't the only reminder that Celtic people on the fringes of Europe in Ireland and Britain, and even Brittany in western France, had a civilization that existed long before the Romans arrived. It was perhaps contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramid builders. Structures in Ireland, the most famous is perhaps Newgrange, and throughout England and Scotland point to a significant knowledge of construction and astronomy. In France a huge structure on a bluff predates the Egyptian pyramids and was found only 60 years ago. The Cairn of Bernanez near Morlaix was thought to be a mound of dirt and rocks! Inside is Europe's oldest megalithic mausoleum. It's the same with structures found nearby on the French coast only six years ago at Kerdruelland, described as a time machine in the French press.
Robbins, with a great of research that shows up throughout the novel she's written, puts all of this construction into perspective, competently and thoroughly, as she weaves her tale based on the builders of Newgrange in Ireland and Stonehenge in England. From the idea that a group of builders existed in the Pictish pre-Iron Age civilization, to the rise of a female leader, the tale continues to weave reality out of hypothesis. What makes this more interesting though is the way Robbins intersperses a modern (fictional) archeologist, who comments on twists and turns in the story.
Without giving away too much of the story, someone finds a metal box containing a memoire dating from Roman days that explains the civilization that constructed Stonehenge and other Bronze Age buildings as the civilization is about to be destroyed. The story is compelling in its rationality, told as the last survivor of the civilization runs before the Roman conquerors.
If modern man can only learn that a hill of rocks were in Brittany contained a Stone Age tomb in the mid-1950s, or find other historical constructions less than 10 years ago, then the hypothesis of the novel becomes even more real and plausible. In any case, this is a very good hypothesis on which to build a highly readable novel, exploring the culture of the times (from 21st century eyes, of course), and how Celtic pre-historic men and women reacted to changes and new ideas. The characters are fully woven, the language isn't stilted like so much fantasy. The ideas of a reality far different from our own are superb.
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The Stonehenge Scrolls edition by KP Robbins Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I haven't finished this book because I am reading other books. But, it does give a new insightful way of how the stones were moved and written as if it were being observed at the time. Interesting concepts and always a mystery in how they did it and what they are for. The "Blue Stones" were mentioned and how they were moved from such a great distance. Somebody went way out of their way to move those stones and in the circular manor for reasons still unknown today. Some say it was for sacrifice rituals or use as a calendar when the sun shined through the stones on one day of the year. I am sure I will find out more when I finish the book. It is worth reading. There is some humour in it with one of his helpers too!
This was a lovely story about the building of Stonehenge. The descriptions of how the stones were moved was fascinating. However, I wanted it to be so much more. Besides the main character -- the master builder -- the characters were cardboard cut-outs. When moving the stones, several workers had to jump into the river to guide the massive wooden cradle. Nothing was said about how cold the water was, or how difficult it was for the swimmers.
The passages were written in three parts. Descriptions by the characters as Stonehenge was built, then narrative from the monk who wrote the story down on scrolls in the 8th century, and then the modern day blog. I in fact did like the blog entries. It was the parts with the Latin-writing monk that were really awful and forced.
The gray, black and white story is good. Would have loved it if it were written in richer colors.
As one who is familiar with Karen Robbins' fine writing over the years, and knowing of her (healthy) obsession with Stonehenge, I was very interested to read what I knew would be a fascinating take on its history. I am not one who is intrinsically fascinated with Stonehenge, although I do have a passing interest in Scottish cairns, so I was hoping to not only be entertained, but educated, as well.
I thought Karen did a wonderful, thoughtful job with the story, and I found myself intrigued by the characters, especially Myrddin and his daughter Sulis. I found the moving and building of the Stone Circle fascinating, and the author paints a vivid picture of this. The characters, I felt, could have been given more dimension, and some variance in the way they spoke, since they all talked the same way, and their particular personalities didn't come out in the form of any verbal quirks and tics that define speech, and they various ways that men and woman address each other.
Where there is happiness, however, you know there's going to be a jealous Uthne around the corner, and in the story, he provides a dark, entrenched power that fights to resist change. I was greatly moved by the funeral scene for a main character, and felt I didn't get to spend enough time with him. For Myrddin is the hinge on which the story is told -- a builder who defies tradition by teaching his daughter -- and I felt that he was taken too soon from the story. Which, of course, makes him a successful character, because you want him to be around for the final, great circle.
I was not enamoured of Maeve Haley's blog entries, which I found a distraction from the story. Some of the observations were a bit off-base, too, a little flippant, and not helpful to the story. But in contrast, I found the fictional characters more compelling than the ones who were posing question in the blog. Perhaps that's just me as a reader, since I don't like distractions from the current action that dissolve the flow of the story. I learned a lot about the monument builders, and thought the story really sang when their work was in progress.
A rich and well-told story, I'm looking forward to Karen's next one!
As an inveterate tumulus climber and stele observer, I was immediately taken with Karen P. Robbins' hypothesis on the construction of Stonehenge in her novel, Stonehenge Scrolls.
Stonehenge, for those few who don't know about it, is a collection of huge stones, arranged in rings in such a way that the sun casts shadows and appears in perfect positions at various times of the year. It's been thought to be a monument to religion, and it's the largest of such stone structures in the British Isles. How it got there was a mystery, examined and studied by historians and archeologists for many years.
But Stonehenge isn't the only reminder that Celtic people on the fringes of Europe in Ireland and Britain, and even Brittany in western France, had a civilization that existed long before the Romans arrived. It was perhaps contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramid builders. Structures in Ireland, the most famous is perhaps Newgrange, and throughout England and Scotland point to a significant knowledge of construction and astronomy. In France a huge structure on a bluff predates the Egyptian pyramids and was found only 60 years ago. The Cairn of Bernanez near Morlaix was thought to be a mound of dirt and rocks! Inside is Europe's oldest megalithic mausoleum. It's the same with structures found nearby on the French coast only six years ago at Kerdruelland, described as a time machine in the French press.
Robbins, with a great of research that shows up throughout the novel she's written, puts all of this construction into perspective, competently and thoroughly, as she weaves her tale based on the builders of Newgrange in Ireland and Stonehenge in England. From the idea that a group of builders existed in the Pictish pre-Iron Age civilization, to the rise of a female leader, the tale continues to weave reality out of hypothesis. What makes this more interesting though is the way Robbins intersperses a modern (fictional) archeologist, who comments on twists and turns in the story.
Without giving away too much of the story, someone finds a metal box containing a memoire dating from Roman days that explains the civilization that constructed Stonehenge and other Bronze Age buildings as the civilization is about to be destroyed. The story is compelling in its rationality, told as the last survivor of the civilization runs before the Roman conquerors.
If modern man can only learn that a hill of rocks were in Brittany contained a Stone Age tomb in the mid-1950s, or find other historical constructions less than 10 years ago, then the hypothesis of the novel becomes even more real and plausible. In any case, this is a very good hypothesis on which to build a highly readable novel, exploring the culture of the times (from 21st century eyes, of course), and how Celtic pre-historic men and women reacted to changes and new ideas. The characters are fully woven, the language isn't stilted like so much fantasy. The ideas of a reality far different from our own are superb.
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