Library

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

Yggdrasil as Map: precedents for a large-scale Eliadian cross structure in prehistoric Scandinavia and probabilities of integration with locations of largest mounds
Dennis Doxtater 

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