Books and Publications
Books
relevant to archaeology and geomancy in Cornwall
BOOKS
about Penwith and Cornwall
about Penwith and Cornwall
Cooke, Ian McNeil, Mother and Sun: the Cornish Fogou, 1993.
Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Archaeology and Landscape at the Land's End, Cornwall, 2016.
Herring, Peter, St Michael's Mount - an archaeological evaluation, CAU, 1993.
Jenkins, Palden, Shining Land - the ancient sites of West Penwith, 2024.
Kennett, Caroline, Celestial Stone Circles of West Cornwall, 2018 (archaeoastronomy).
Kennett, Caroline and Straffon, Cheryll, eds, Watching the Sun, 2022.
Michell, John, The Old Stones of Land's End, 1974.
Ordnance Survey, Land's End - Penzance and St Ives, Explorer map 102.
Payne, Robin and Lewsey, Rosemarie, The Romance of the Stones, 1999
Pool, P A S, Place Names of West Penwith, 1985.
Straffon, Cheryll:
- Megalithic Mysteries of Cornwall, 2004.
- Fentynyow Kernow, (holy wells), 2008.
- Pagan Cornwall - Land of the Goddess, 1993/2012.
- Earth Mysteries Guides to Cornwall (four volumes)
Thomas, Charles, Exploration of a Drowned Landscape, (Scilly), 1985.
Weatherhill, Craig:
- Belerion: the ancient sites of Land's End, 1981;
- Cornovia: ancient sites of Cornwall and Scilly, 1985 & 2009;
- Cornish Place-names and Language, 2007;
- The Promontory People, 2018;
- Place Names of the Land's End Peninsula, 2017;
PUBLICATIONS
Magazine of ancient stones and sacred sites in Cornwall (ed. Cheryl Straffon). See the Meyn Mamvro Archive.
OTHER RELEVANT BOOKS
Broadhurst, Paul and Miller, Hamish:
- The Sun and the Serpent, 1998
- The Dance of the Dragon, 2000.
Ellis, Peter Berresford:
- Celtic Dawn, 2002.
- Celt and Saxon,
Heath, Robin:
- Sun, Moon and Stonehenge, 1998
- Alexander Thom: Cracking the Stone Age Code, 2007.
Heggie, D C, Megalithic Science, 1981.
Knight, Christopher and Lomas, Robert:
- The Hiram Key, 1996.
-Uriel's Machine - the ancient origins of science, 2000.
Knight, Peter, Dartmoor Mindscapes - revisioning a sacred landscape, 2016.
Lockyer, Sir Norman, Stonehenge and other British Monuments Astronomically Considered, 1906. Available as a PDF file
Lonegren, Sig, Spiritual Dowsing, 1986.
Graves Tom,
- Needles of Stone, 1978/86. Available as a website
- Elements of Pendulum Dowsing, 2008. E-book
- Dowsing and Archaeology, 1980.
- The Essential T C Lethbridge, 1980, with Janet Hoult.
Michell, John:
- The View over Atlantis, 1972.
- The New View over Atlantis, 1983.
- A Little History of Astro-Archaeology, 1981.
Pryor, Francis, Britain BC, 2003.
Roney-Dougal, Serena, Where Science and Magic Meet, 1991.
Thom, Alexander, Megalithic Sites in Britain, 1971
Available as PDF files: 1. Archaeoastronomy; 2. Circles and Rings; 3. The Megalithic Calendar
Underwood, Guy, The Patterns of the Past, 1973.
Watkins, Alfred, The Old Straight Track, 1925/1974.
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