Glyn Edmund Daniel

"For nearly thirty years, until his death in 1986, the well-known scholar, writer and broadcaster Glyn Daniel was editor of Antiquity, the influential review of archaeology. Under his guidance, it became a journal with a difference. In each issue the editor would air eloquently his decided views on matters not just archaeological--finds, hypotheses, personalities--but of interest or amusement to all: the pleasures of the French countryside, the follies of government policy, the five golden rules that a lecturer should observe." "Here is a collection of the very best of these entertaining, often passionately written essays. Glyn Daniel's range was wide, his tastes eclectic; but he came back again and again to favorite themes--travel, national attitudes, Stonehenge, the return of the Elgin marbles, smuggling, forgery. Forgery especially fascinated him: "I suppose," he wrote once, "that it is my interest in reading and writing detective stories that rubs off onto the study of archaeological forgery." He also loved to see "those on the edge of the lunatic fringes of archaeology plunge headlong down the lush grass that leads to Atlantis and Tiahuanaco and by long straight green tracks to Glozel and the Druids at Stonehenge."" "Writing for Antiquity presents Glyn Daniel exactly as he was--a man of letters, a brilliant raconteur and a wit. This is a volume to keep on one's bedside table, to read or dip into for amusement, enlightenment and the charm of the unexpected."--Jacket.

Current theories on the origin of the prehistoric stone tombs known as Dolmens, Cromlechs, or Giant graves. For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St. John's and Trinity College. Here one morning the bedmakers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice-President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection.

No death could have been more welcome than Evan Morgan's, or more fitting for the Welcome Home celebrations in the village of Llanddewi. For Morgan had spent the war making money and enemies down in the Vale of Glamorgan with about equal facility. In fact, on the night, it seemed as if a whole posse of murderers had beaten a path to the door of the Manor House. It is left to the ingenuity of Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection on a visit from Cambridge, to solve this intricate puzzle of motives and alibis.