Sky and Landscape

Bluestone Magic – A Guide to the Prehistoric Monuments of West Wales.

UK Price £9.90 (plus £2 P&P UK)

ISBN 978-0-9526151-0-1. Size 148 by 210 mm (6’’by 8.25”), soft covers, 184 page, full colour & fully illustrated (over 100 colour photographs and graphics).

Published by Bluestone Press, Cardigan, Wales. Email: bluestonepress@skyhenge.demon.co.uk

Have you ever felt, while visiting a megalithic monument, that there may be something more going on beyond the sparse model of human culture in prehistory presented by archaeologists and historians? If so, then this book may be exactly what you have been looking for - because it offers an explanation as to why those monuments are out there on the landscape, and why they were placed at a particular location. And more!

Whether the local bluestones were taken to Stonehenge or moved by glacial action, they were certainly important in prehistoric times, being employed in various stages of the construction of Stonehenge. The history of this mystery, ancient and modern, from Merlin and Geoffrey of Monmouth to the ‘healing stones’ theory of Timothy Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright, is covered in detail.

This book provides a much needed and important guide to anyone visiting the major and a few minor megalithic sites in the Preseli region of West Wales, but it takes in a much wider compass than this. Packed with new original research, apart from telling you how to get to the major sites, and about the geometry of monuments, it will inform you on how sites relate to others, often over long distances, and how they are related to their landscapes and skyscapes, for many of these sites do astonishingly interesting things with the sun and moon during important times in the calendar.

Robin Heath is a respected lecturer, tour guide and researcher. The author of over nine books on this subject matter, he has lived and worked among the megaliths here for twenty-five years. Bluestone Magic changes the whole way we must think about our ancestral capabilities.

And there’s some quite strange stuff to consider – a great secret from the Stone Age. Robin shows unequivocally that our forebears were accurate surveyors, geometers and astronomers. In 2009 he discovered an artefact - an astonishingly accurate geometric shape - embedded into the landscape, a shape which was conceived and built during the Neolithic period and yet appears to have powerfully influenced the development of early Christianity within the Celtic Church in Wales, and is now found to be linked to the rise of an alternative spiritual and ecological movement here.

In a recent interview, the author referred to this as “Active Sacred Geometry – shapes on the landscape that behave as verbs and not nouns”, and in Bluestone Magic his case is backed up with solid evidence and objective analysis.

The big secret is out! In this remarkably practical and often witty guide book, Heath truly goes into full colour, and both reveals and revels in the beautiful landscape and the monuments that populate it, together with the secret that has waited 5000 years to be uncovered. Whether you are a new visitor to the landscape of West Wales, interested in ‘earth mysteries’ or a seasoned megalithomaniac, Bluestone Magic is the book that changes the rules, exposing the current academic disinterest in prehistoric astronomy, geometry and alignments.

For further details and ordering email Email: bluestonepress@skyhenge.demon.co.uk