64 StoneJienge and its Barrows. 



the Belgians, as if they had said ' you have a monument to Teut, 

 he is your great God ; you have also, on the ground, which your 

 own God, the Deity, next in name and power to Teutates, could not 

 preserve to yourselves and children, a temple to the Sun. The Sun 

 is our own Grod ; the Fire is our God ; we will show you how to 

 build a temple to the Sun, through whom we have conquered your 

 country ; and we will surround your rude altars with a work worthy 

 the great deity of light/ " ^ 



It might be thought to have been almost impossible to set up the 

 large stones of the outer circle and inner ellipse without utterly 

 crushing and destroying the stones of the smaller circle and smaller 

 ellipse. Mr. Herbert says, " If this structure were built at different 

 epochs, the grey stones were surely erected the first, since the 

 hoisting of the triliths over the green stones would be a strange 

 supposition." ^ 



The fact that chippings from the stones of both kinds have been 

 found intermingled in two of the adjoining barrows should be borne in 

 mind in discussing this question. Sir R. C. Hoare says : ''No. 16 is a 

 mutilated flat barrow, 76 feet in diameter and only 3 feet in elevation. 

 This appears to have been one of those opened by Dr. Stukeley, and 

 is thus spoken of by him in his account of Stonehenge : ' and in a 

 very great and old-fashioned barrow, west from Stonehenge, among 

 such matters, I foimd bits of red and blue marble chippings of the 

 stones of the temple ; so that probably, the interred was one of the 

 builders.'' During our researches in this tumtihis, we perceived that 

 a long section had been made, and found the bones of two skeletons 

 which had been interred on the floor, also several pieces of stages 

 horns, animal bones, &c., as well as some fragments of sarsen stones, 

 similar to those which form the great trilithons of Stonehenge. On 

 clearing out the earth from this section, we observed a small heap 

 of whiter soil, which, having removed,, we came to the primary 

 interment of burned bones within a fine circular cist, and found a 

 spear head of brass in fine preservation, and a pin of the same 

 metal. It is somewhat singular, that these burned bones (a more 



1 Hermes Britannicus, p. 125. 

 * Cyclops Christianus, p. 120. 



