22 i Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



distance a matter of no concern in comparison with the importance 

 of having- them there, as an integral portion of the sacred fane. 



The word " Sarrasin." 

 (Page 69.; 

 Dr. Stukeley says (p. 63 of reprint) that : " the Cornish men 

 universally suppose that the Jews are the people who first work^t in 

 their rocks for tin; and in old neg-lected tin-works they find some 

 of their tools. The workmen call them attal sarazin, the Jews' cast 

 off works in their Hehrew speech, says Norden." On the Jews in 

 Cornwall, see Mr. Max Miiller's "Chips from a German Workshop," 

 vol. iii. 



Destruction of Stones at Stonehenge. 

 (Page 77.J 



Lord Herbert (then the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert) stated in 

 his speech at the Society's meeting, at Salisbury, in 1855, that he 

 believed " that some years ag'o, a portion of Stonehenge was con- 

 sumed in the rejiaration of the roads." (See " IFilts Arch. Sf Nat. 

 Hist. Mag," ii., 6.) This can hardly have been the case since 1812, 

 as the plans of Stonehenge which served for the illustration of Sir 

 Richard Hoare's description of it in "Ancient Wilts," require no 

 alteration for the illustration of the present paper, although at an 

 intei'val of sixty years. 



There must have been some misapprehension about the stone from 

 which West Amesbury House was built (see page 76), as Mr. 

 Edwards, of Amesbury, in a letter which he has kindly communicated 

 to the writer (dated April 8th, 1876), says, " I have been to West 

 Amesbury, and have carefully examined the stones used in building 

 the house as well as the garden wall, but have not discovered any 

 stones similar to those at Stonehenge. ... I likewise ex- 

 amined the walls of the old farm-house, on which there is a date of 

 1680, the old portion of which is partly built with similar stones to 

 that of the house before mentioned." Mr. Edwards mentions 

 the curious fact that the Stonehenge circles and the Friar's Heel 

 are in different Hundreds, the former being in the Hundred 

 of Underditch, and the latter in the Hundred of Amesbury. 



