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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Menhir de Champ-Dolent, Dol-de-Bretagne
Menhir Er Grah
La Moye aka Quesnel Menhir
Plas Gogerddan Stone Row
Hawk Stone
King Stone
The Long Stone
Long Meg
Rudston Monolith
The Devil's Arrow's
Andle Stone
King Stone, Stanton Moor
Baron Hill Standing Stone
Gwael-y-filast Standing Stone
Gwern Einion Standing Stone
Harold's Stones, Trellech
Llanfechell Standing Stones
Maen Morddwyd Standing Stone
Hautville's Quoit
Nine Maidens Stone Row
Coffin Stone
White Horse Stone
Standing Stones is in Neolithic Monuments.
Between 5000BC and 4000BC. The Menhir de Champ-Dolent [Map] is a menhir, or upright standing stone, located in a field outside the town of Dol-de-Bretagne. It is the second largest standing stone in Brittany and is over 9 metres high.
4700BC. The broken Menhir Er Grah [Map], erected around 4700 BC at the same time as another 18 blocks nearby, is thought to have been broken around 4000 BC. Measuring 20.60 metres (67.6 ft) and with a weight of 330 tons, the stone is from a rocky outcrop located several kilometres away from Locmariaquer. The impressive dimensions of this menhir still divide specialists about the techniques used for transport and erection, but the fact that this was achieved during the Neolithic era remains remarkable. See Standing Stones.
La Moye aka Quesnel Menhir [Map] was a menhir, 12 or 16ft high, the tallest of Jersey. It was destroyed between 1870 and 1878.