Bernard Cornwell

Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC


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      BERNARD CORNWELL

       Stonehenge

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1999

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 1999

      Illustrations by Rex Nicholls

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007550890

      Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2011 ISBN: 9780007338771

      Version: 2017-05-06

       Dedication

      In memory of

      BILL MOIR

      1943–1998

      ‘The Druid’s groves are gone – so much the better:

      Stonehenge is not – but what the Devil is it?’

      Lord Byron, Don Juan

      Canto XI, verse XXV.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       Part Two: The Temple of Shadows

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Part Three: The Temple of the Dead

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Historical Note

       Chapter 21

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

PART ONE The Sky Temple

      Map of the settlement and temples of Ratharryn, c. 2000 BC

      

Chapter 1

      The