30 Stonehenge and its Barrotvs. 



from J. W." The portion of the work for which Jones was 

 responsible was very small. The peculiarities of his plan are 

 that he gives three entraneeSj and that he makes the two 

 inner portions of the structure of an hexagonal form. The results 

 of his enquiry are as follows : " I suppose I have now proved from 

 authentic authors, and the rules of artj Stonheng anciently a Temple 

 dedicated to Cselus [by some authors called Cselum^ by others 

 Uranus, from whom the ancients imagined all things took their 

 beginnings] built by the Romans ; either in, or not long after those 

 times [by all likelihood] when the Roman eagles spreading their 

 commanding wings over this island, the more to civilize the natives, 

 introduced the art of building amongst them, discovering their 

 ambitious desire, by stupendous and prodigious works, to eternize 

 the memory of their high minds to succeeding ages.'''' 



Dr. Charleton,' in a fulsome dedication to King Charles II., of 

 his " Chorea Gigantum,''^ or the most famous antiquity of Great 

 Britain, vulgarly called Stoneheng, standing on Salisbury Plain 

 restored to the Danes," (1663,) has the following paragraph, which 

 will sufficiently explain his views : " Having diligently compared 

 Stone-heng with other antiquities of the same kind, at this day 

 standing in Denmark, and finding a perfect resemblance in most, if 

 not in all particulars, observable on both sides ; and acquainting 

 myself moreover with the uses of those rudely-magnificent structures, 

 for many hundreds of years together ; I now at length conceive it 

 to have been erected by the Danes, when they had this nation in 

 subjection ; and principally, if not wholly, designed to be a Court 

 Royal, or Place for the Election and Inauguration of their Kings; 

 according to a certain strange custom, yet of eldest date, most 



1 Dr. Charleton (1619—1707) ■was the son of a clergyman of Shepton Mallet, 

 and physician in ordinary to King Charles I. and afterwards to King Charles 

 II. " He was very emineot in his profession, and lived to an advanced age ; 

 but by reason of some imprudent management 'was obliged to retire from his 

 family to one of those islands, which are the remains of our French conquests ; 

 aud there he passed the residue of his days in obscurity and want." It appears 

 to have been under the influence of Olaus Wormius that the Doctor wrote his 

 work, ascribing the construction of Stonehenge to the Danes. 



