Stan Beckensall

This comprehensive work takes a broad view of what rock art entails, covering the history of rock art research and the discovery of many new sites. The author illustrates the different symbols and motifs that are found throughout the British Isles, and shows where they occur in landscapes and monuments. It is a book …

In this latest book the prolific Stan Beckensall returns to his principal specialism, Britains prehistoric rock art. Beckensall has played a key role in recording and researching rock art, and in this book he brings this experience to bear in a detailed survey of the types of rock art, motifs and patterns to be found …

The authors are well-known and highly regarded both in general archaeology and for their detailed knowledge of rock art in Northern Britain and this is an ideal collaboration. Their work has been to survey and record all known instances of rock art from the Tyne to the Tees, in Teesdale, Swaledale and Wensleydale, and …