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crossways with tenons and mortoises, so that the whole frame seemeth 

 to hang-, whereof it is called Stone Henge/' 



In Plot's Staffordshire, 168G, chap, x., § 11, p, 398, is the fol- 

 lowing account of Stonehenge : " The Britons usually erecting such 

 monuments as these upon a civil as well as religious account. 

 Witness Kit's Coty House in Kent, Rollwright in Oxfordshire, and 

 Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The latter was most probably [set up] 

 as some British Forum or Temple and not of any Roman Pagan 

 Deity, as Inigo Jones would have it, the Romans of the time being 

 skilfull in architecture and most other arts, and therefore no question 

 had they built it, would have made a much more artificial structure 

 than this appears to have been ; nor should it have wanted an in- 

 scription, or being someway or other transmitted in their writings 

 down to posterity. Nor is it less unlikely, that it should ever be 

 erected for a Danish forum for inauguration of their kings, as Dr. 

 Charleton would persuade us ; for then certainly all the Kings of 

 the Danish race had been crowned either there, or else at Rollwright 

 or some other such cirque of stones elsewhere. Whereas we find 

 Canutus crowned at London, Harold Harefoot at Oxford, and 

 Hardi-Canute likewise at London. Not to mention the Danish 

 transactions in England are of so late a date that our historians 

 have given us a tolerable account of them [the Danes] from their 

 very first entrance, and would not certainly have been silent of so 

 considerable structure, had they been the authors of it, either as a 

 Forum or upon any other account.^' 



Keysler, in his " Antiquitates selectsB Septentrionales et Celtic£B,'' 

 (17^0) adopts Inigo Jones' ground-plan, and ascribes the erection of 

 Stonehenge to the Danes or Anglo-Saxons. 



Stukeley,in his account of Stonehenge (published IZIO, page 66), 

 says that Stonehenge was a work of the Druids, who founded it, 

 B.C. 460. "About 100 years before our Saviour's birth, Divitiacus 

 made the Wansdike north of Stonehenge, and drove the possessors 

 of this fine country of the Wiltshire Downs, northwards. So that 

 the Druids enjoyed their magnificent work of Stonehenge, but about 

 360 years. And the very great number of barrows about it, requires 

 that wc should not much shorten the time. Sir Issac Newton, in his 



