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^mxi^tm of c§tone|^nge. 



^E who would make clear to another the relative positions of 

 )) the circles and ellipses, and of the stones which compose 

 them, should bear in mind the Horatian maxim : — 



" Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem 

 Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta lidelibus." 



and should call to his aid plans of Stonehenge as it was supposed to 

 have been set up, and of Stonehenge as it is. Those with which 

 Canon Jackson kindly supplied the writer, with the stones coloured 

 according to the portions of the structure to which they belonged, 

 have been reproduced in chromolithography, and will do more to 

 make the details of Stonehenge intelligible than any verbal ex- 

 planation or written description, however lucid and accurate. 



It will be seen that this stone structure stands in the centre of a 

 circular boundary, which is 300 feet in diameter, and which has 

 been formed by the throwing up of a slight vallum from a slight 

 ditch on the outside. This vallum is about 100 feet from the outer 

 circle of stones. The vallum cuts through the boundary ring of a low 

 barrow on the N.W. side (in which Sir Richard Hoare found merely- 

 burnt bones), and it embraces another low barrow on the opposite 

 side. From this treatment of the former tumulus, it is clear that 

 it was in existence before the ditch was dug. In the other tumulus 

 on the south-east side nothing was found. Two stones are to be 

 seen on the edge of the embankment, and within it ; that on the 

 south-east side is nearly nine feet high, that on the north-west side 

 is not quite four feet high. There are no indications of other stones 

 having been similarly placed on the margin of this earthen ring. 

 The circumference of the ditch is '369 yards. 



The entrance faces the north-east, and is marked by a bank and 



