Zi'l Stonehenge and its Barroios. 



" It is environed vnih an extraoi'dinaiy great Vallum [or Rampart] 

 as great and as high as that at Winchester, (which is the greatest 

 Bulwark that I have seen), within which is a GrafFe of a Depth and 

 Breadth proportionable to it : Wherefore it could not be designed 

 for a Fortification, for then the GrafFe would have been on the 

 out-side of the Rampart. 



" From the Port a, to the Port /8, is sixty Perches. From the Port 

 y, to that of S the same distance, and the breadth of the Rampart 

 is Four Perches, and the breadth of the Graffe the same distance. 

 Round about the GrafFe [soil, on the edge or border of it) are 

 pitched on end huge Stones, as big, or rather bigger than those at 

 Stoneheng; but rude and unhewn 



Drawing of Stoxehenge in the " Scala Mundi.^^ 

 (Page 46.; 



Through the intervention of his friend, the Rev. Prebendary 

 Scarth, the writer has been able to procure a further account of the 

 plan of Stonehenge in the library of Corpus Christi College (formerly 

 Benet College), Cambridge. The Rev. S. S. Lewis, F.S.A., a 

 Fellow and Librarian of the College, has most kindly sent him a 

 facsimile of the drawing in " Scala Mundi.'''' This "Scala Mundi^'' 

 is in the Parker MS. (No. 194). At the end of it is written, in a 

 style not much later than the time of Edward II., " Hospitium 

 beate Marie extra bishopsgate hunc vendicat librum.^^ "It is a 

 Chronological Table or Fasti from Anno Mundi I., down to 1338, 

 in handwriting of the time of Edward I., thence to the year 1451, 

 in a somewhat later hand : the skeleton is complete to the year 

 1619. The lunar cycles of nineteen years and the solar cycles of 

 twenty-eight years are duly marked, but there are fifty lines [i.e., 

 fifty years) in each page instead of one clear cycle of nineteen only, 

 as is the case when twenty-eight leaves of such pages complete a 

 combination of the lunar and solar cycles. The manuscript is a 

 small folio 11 j inches long by 7i wide.^' The notice of Stonehenge 

 occurs on page 57. In the quadrangular space between the stones 

 is written " Stonehenges juxta Ambresbury in Anglia sita ■" in red 

 ink. A.D. 491 is the year to which the notice of Stonehenge is 



