Stone Circles: A Field Guide has been nominated for Book of the Year in the 2025 Current Archaeology Awards.
The book, a collaboration between the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Colin Richards and Cardiff University’s Professor Vicki Cummings looks at 424 key stone circle sites across Britain and Ireland.
With nominations based on books reviewed in Current Archaeology magazine over the last 12 months, voting is now open at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote. So, if you’ve read the book and enjoyed it, your vote would be very much appreciated.
Voting closes on February 10, 2025, with the winning title announced at the Current Archaeology Live! 2025 conference, at University College London’s Institute of Education, on March 1, 2025.
Organised by region, the book sets out the features of the megalithic monuments, including their landscape position, construction, and physical properties. Taking stock of new research and recent excavations, the authors present new insights on the chronology, composition, and roles of different circles to transform our understanding the sites.
Colin is professor of archaeology at the UHI Archaeology Institute and the author of numerous books, including Building the Great Stone Circles of the North.
He has excavated sites across Orkney, and beyond, including the Neolithic settlements at Barnhouse, Stonehall, Wideford Hill, Crossiecrown and Smerquoy and at the Ring of Brodgar and Vestrafiold.
Professor of Neolithic archaeology at Cardiff University, Vicki is the author of several works, including The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland. She is currently co-director of the excavation of a Neolithic chambered cairn in Holm, Orkney.
Stone Circles: A Field Guide is their second book together, following 2021’s Monuments in the Making, which looked at dolmens.
Fully illustrated with photographs, maps, and plans, Stone Circles: A Field Guide is published by Yale University Press and available in softback, priced £30.
