Rigorous research plays a pivotal role in the Arcane Landscape Trust approach, and although the majority of our published work is rooted in the Suffolk landscape, these free downloadable resources are from a selection of worldwide multidisciplinary publications that have inspired us. Dive into our download library below, we’ll continue to share work that we resonate with as our published work evolves.
Personal Experience and Place
A Sense of Place within the Landscape in Cultural Settings
Nik Mastura Nik Mohammad, Masran Saruwono, Shahrul Yani Said,
Wan Ahmad Halawah Wan Hariri
The Archaeology of Consciousness
Paul Devereux
The Cosmic Connections of the Eight Key Points in the Indo-European Ritual Year
Emily Lyle
Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography
J.E. Malpas
Myth and Ritual in Pre-Christian Scandinavian Landscape
Stefan Brink
The Effects of Geophysical Anomalies on Biology
Lydia Giannoulopoulou, Angelos Evangelou, Spyros Karkabounas, Stavros Papamarinopoulos
The Experience of Watching: Place Defined by the Trinity of Land, Sea, and Skyscape
Daniel Brown
Archaeological Enquiry
The Stonehenge Altar Stone: Its Origins, Composition, and Function, and the Search for its Lost Companion
Andrew Collins
An Eye for Odin? Divine Role-Playing in the Age of Sutton Hoo
Neil Price, Paul Mortimer
Animal ‘Ritual’ Killing: from Remains to Meanings
James Morris
Sighted Surfaces: Ocular Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Burials
Ruth Nugent & Howard Williams
Shrines (Roman and Post-Roman)
Historic England
Lost Features of an Ancient Landscape
Robert Steerwood
The Shamanic Roots of European Culture: Visions of the Otherworld and Ecstatic Battles from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Sonia Maura Barillari
The Ritual Stratigraphy of Monuments that Matter
Terje Gansum, Terje Oestigaard
Living on: ancestors and the soul
Alexandra Sanmark
The Landscape of a Swedish Boat-Grave Cemetery
Howard Williams, Martin Rundkvist, Arne Danielsson
Exploring Linear Earthworks across Time and Space
Nicky Garland, Barney Harris, Tom Moore and Andrew Reynolds
Prehistoric Linear Boundary Earthworks
Historic England
Oppida
Historic England
The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age
John C. Barrett
Pit Alignments in the Milfield Basin, and the Excavation of Ewart 1
Roger Miket
Archaeoastronomy
Rescue excavations of a Vendel era Boat-Grave in Salme, Saaremaa
Marge Konsa, Raili Allmäe, Liina Maldre
Eternal Rome: Guardian of the Heavenly Gates
George Latura
The Milky Way and the Goddess of the Henges
John Grigsby
Eostre the goddess and the free-standing posts of Yeavering
Richard North
Ales Stones in Southern Sweden: A Remarkable Monument of the Sun Cult and Advanced Astronomy in the Bronze Age
Nils-Axel Mörner, Bob G. Lind
The Bronze Age in SE Sweden: Evidence of Long-Distance Travel and Advanced Sun Cult
Nils-Axel Mörner, Bob G. Lind
Heimdall’s Stones at Vitemölla in SE Sweden and the chronology and stratigraphy of the surroundings
Nils-Axel Mörner, Bob G. Lind, Göran Possnert
The pagan Great Midwinter Sacrifice and the ‘royal’ mounds at Old Uppsala
Göran Henriksson
Landscaping the Powers of Darkness & Light
L.L. Therkorn
Two-Faced Solstice Symbols and the World Tree: Sources of Mythology. Ancient and Contemporary Myths.
Dr. James Ogier
On the Astronomical Orientation of the Hardknott Fort
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
The Winter Solstice and the Mithraeum at Brocolitia, Carrawburgh
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
The Cuckoo Stone and its function as a calendar solar sanctuary (German)
Ralf Herold, Dr. Hilmar Hensel