Publisher's Synopsis
Nobody knows how long distance trade was carried out in Ancient Britain in the absence of literate devices such as maps and signposts, though it is known from the archaeology that everything from stone axes to bronze swords were moved around on a huge scale. This book shows how it was done using an ingenious system of menhirs, obelisks, dolmens, cursuses and chalk figures all linked together by stone circles. The organisation responsible for the upkeep of this network, which included trade with the Mediterranean and Scandinavia, is identified and this ‘Megalithic Empire’ is shown to have operated not only in the pre-literate era of the Bronze and Iron Ages but again in the Dark Ages. New light is thrown on a variety of groups such as the Druids, the Roman Equites, the Celtic saints, the Cistercians, the Templars and the neo-Platonists, all of which are shown to be inheritors of a tradition that goes back thousands of years.
