32 Stonekenge and its Barrows. 



The following is AubrcT's account of Stonehenge from his "Mon- 

 umenla Britaunica/^ vol. i. : "Templa Druidum. 

 Of Stoneheng. 

 Mdm. The In- I am now come to Stonehengj one of our English 



diginoe doe call it _ _ 



stonedge(i) Stones wonclers, that hath been the subjsct of SO much Dis- 



1 beileve^^is^ the coursc, the Prospect whereof I give in Plate VI., and 



of Mr°"!''.^"hl? *^^ Ichnographic double, in Plate the Vir\, scilicet, 



hath now bought one being that of Mr. Inigo Jones in Mr. Web's 



the inheritance of ^ 



ithowitis writtin Stoneheng restored, being an handsome harmonicall 



his ancient eviden- „ , n-iiir-i 



ces! ngure : but the cell is absolutely false : the other (fig. 



2) being that which I tooke myselfe from the place, and according to 

 y* truth. 



" A. A. A. is the circular trench, which should have been distant from 

 the Center an hundred foot by the scale, had there been space enough 

 and is made by him perfectly circular, whereas in trueth it is rude. 



" The three entrances here are supposed by him to be in y" angles of 

 an equilaterall Triangle, whereas indeed they are in the angles of a 

 Scselenum. 



" C. the Worke itselfe. b. h. b. b. b. what Mr. Jones calls the 

 celle : which he hath here protracted in the forme of an Hexagon : 

 whereas it should be as fig. S"". 



" Fig. the 'Z^ is the Remains of it as it is now. 



" Had this been a Worke of the Romans, certainly they would 

 have made this celle of some harmonicall figure ; the Ruines of it 

 doe cleerly enough shew (without further demonstration) that it 

 could neither be a Hexagon, or heptagon : nor can all the angles be 

 forced to touch a circle. 



" From to in fig. 2"* is fourty five foot. The intervall <i> is 

 three yards + the intervall of y' coupled stones S one foote. 



" The distance between the celle and the greater outer circle of 

 stones is twenty one foote. 



'^ ■ ■ ■ : these marks signify the picked stones about five foot 

 high, and whereas in this Diagram they are sett in the middle be- 

 tween the greater circle and the hexagon: they are distant from the 

 great circle but six foot and |. These picked stones ■ ■ within 

 fig 2", are not a yard distant from the coupled stones. 



