86 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



the Schoolmaster and Sir Thos. Eliot could not read, might be made 

 by the Druides, who though they used the Greeke character, it 

 might be as much disguised and different from what is now in use 

 as it is in the Sclavonique by the Russians, which a critick in Greeke 

 is not able to read. 



" Mr. Inigo Jones saieth that he found a Thuribulum or some 

 such like vase lyeing three foot within the ground. I think it was 

 in the Pitt, Plate viii., fig. 2<i. 



" George Duke of Buckingham, when King James the first was 

 at Wilton did cause the middle of Stoneheng to be digged, and 

 there remains a kind of pitt or cavity still ; it is about the bignesse 

 of two sawe pitts. But there is no signe of an Altar stone, as is 

 mentioned in Stoneheng Restored. ■'Tis true near to the jiitt doe lie 

 three rude roundish stones, which are frustums. [In plate vjii., 'n., 

 is this pitt. 



"The Stone that fell downe 21 foot long is X in fig. S"*, and in 

 the prospect it is 5 Plate the Vlth.] And this under-digging 

 was the cause of the falling downe or recumbency of the great 

 stone there, twenty one foot long. He also caused then a Barrowe 

 (or more than one) to be digged, where something was found, but 

 •The-wifeof Mr. what it was Mrs. Mary Trotman,* who lived then at 

 Anthony Tiotman. ^^^ p^^.^^ ^f -yy^g^ Amesbury to which this monu- 

 ment belongs, (to whom I am obliged for her very good information 

 of this place) hath forgot. She told me that the Duke of Bucking- 

 ham would have given to Mr. Newdich, (then Owner of this place) 

 any rate for it, but he would not accept it. 



'' Here is a good account of Mrs. Trotman's lost by wett & 

 time . . . Here were also then found Stagges-bornes a gi'eat 

 many. Batter-dashers,' heads of arrowes, some pieces of armour 

 eaten out with rust, bones rotten, but whether of Stagges or men 

 they could not tell. 



" Philip Earle of Pembroke (Ld. Chamberlayne to King Charles 



' For the meaning of this curious word, which puzzled Sir R. Hoare, see 

 Canon Jackson's note on p. 9 of " Wiltshire Collections." The Canon thinks 

 that they were a kind of war club, like the crest of the Bath uvst family. A 

 copy of Aubrey's drawing of a " Batter-dasher " is given on the second plate of 

 Illustrations of Stouehense from the " Mouumenta Britannica." 



