230 Avebury. — Archaological " Varia." 



above, was in all likelihood the reason why this intention was not 

 carried out. 



It is possible that some descendant of Mr. Hay ward may read 

 these lines in the pages of our Magazine, and I may therefore 

 append the remark that any such person will be heartily welcome to 

 have a photograph taken from the portrait. 



On the other page of this inserted leaf are the following memoranda: 



" Abstract of Abury as far as relates to measure. The bulk of 

 the stones tho' not hewn generally Jg f. square 10 cub. 4 or 5 thick. 



Abury 1100 f. diam. 80 f. broad the ditch. The compass on the 

 outside 4200 odd feet. 30 feet betw. out circle and verge of the 

 ditch. 100 stones, 1040 f. diam. the intvals equal to the dimensions 

 of the stones as before." 



" Magne parens Rerum coeli cui summa potestas 

 Qui mare concelebras qui terras frugiferentes 

 Fluminaque obliquos subter labentia montes 

 Omnia ad setherias duxisti luminis auras." 



And then at the foot of the page occurs the quotation most aptly 

 significant of Stukeley's devoted interest in Avebury : — 

 " Te veniente die te decedente canebam." 



The hand-writing of all the foregoing is small and compressed 

 but exceedingly neat and distinct. Of the history of this inserted 

 leaf in my copy of Stukeley I am utterly ignorant. It would lead 

 to the not improbable inference that this copy had been in the 

 possession of Stukeley himself or of his publisher ; it was a gift to 

 myself from a relative who bought it at Sotheron's in the Strand; 

 and it is certainly a very remarkable circumstance that this very 

 copy, so unique as I suppose it to be, should have found its way 

 into the possession of the present Vicar of Avebury. 



Medleval Relic, Religious Reverence, &c. 



In the autumn of 1872 I picked up in my vicarage-garden a 

 small oblong medallion of the Blessed Virgin and Child standing on 

 a crescent and surrounded by rays of glory ; this subject is framed 

 within two projecting twisted columns terminatimg in an ogee arch 

 above, it has a projection at the back which admits either of its 



