By William Long, Esq. 83 



Bulls or Oxen, and several sorts of Beasts, as appears by the heads 

 of divers kinds of them, not many years since, there digged up." 

 The same statement is repeated in his " Stoneheng, a Roman Work 

 and Temple," p. 97. Speaking again "of the heads of Bulls or 

 Oxen, of Harts, and other such beasts digged up in or near our 

 Antiquity, which were the relicks of such Beasts as were anciently 

 offered at that Place,^' he says, in answer to Dr. Charleton, who had 

 spoken of their havingbeen" plowed up in the adjacent fields : " "Those 

 concern immediately our discovery, that have been found in several 

 parts of the Court surrounding Stoneheng itself, and near about it; 

 for besides the abundance of them which were digged up by Dr. 

 Harvey,^ formerly mentioned, Gilbert North, Esquire, brother to 

 the Bight Honorable the Lord North, Mr. Jones, and divers other 

 persons, at several other times ; when the Right Noble George, late 

 Duke of Buckingham, out of his real affection to antiquity, was at 

 the charge in King James his days, of searching and digging there, 

 great numbers were found also. And as at all the former time, so 

 in like manner at this same time, were great quantities of burnt coals 

 or charcoals digged up likewise ; here lying promiscuously together 

 with the heads, there, in pits by themselves apart, here more, there 

 less." On the next page is an engraving of the cover of the thurib- 

 ulum (!), which he considers " a notable testimony for what use our 

 Stoneheng was at first erected." 



Aubrey, in his " Monumenta Britannica," attributes the partial 

 fall of the leaning stone (marked D 2, in Sir R. C. Hoare^s ground 

 plan) to the researches made in the year 1620, by George, Duke of 

 Buckingham, who, when King James the First was at Wilton (the 

 seat of the Earls of Pembroke), " did cause the middle of Stonehenge 

 to be digged, and this under-digging was the cause of the falling 

 downe, or recumbency of the great stone there, twenty one foote 

 long. In the process of this digging they found a great many horns 

 of stags and oxen, charcoal, batterdashers, heads of arrows, some 

 pieces of armour eaten out with rust, bones rotten, but whether of 

 etagges' or men they could not tell.^^ He further adds, that Philip, 



' The discoverer of the circulation of the blood. 



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