Sun, Moon and Stonehenge, Robin Heath, Bluestone Press, Maes yr Awel, Cwm Degwel, St. Dogmaels, Cardigan, SA43 3JF, UK, 1998, ISBN 0 9526151 7 7, paperback, 239 pp., £12.99.

Heath follows Alexander and Archie Thom and Gerald Hawkins in arguing that megalithic monuments were constructed according to precise geometrical rules of design embodying astronomical principles (solar and lunar periods) and with extensive alignments to, for example, lunar standstills, rather than just the sun at the solstices or equinoxes. He argues that such megalithic complexity, as is clear in his subtitle, is ‘proof of high culture in ancient Britain’. He also argues for the existence of  intellectual contacts between the British Isles and other regions, such as Egypt, in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, to the extent that the monuments in each country can be considered part of the same cultural system.