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and are native to Wiltshire. Lastly, at a distance of about 100 
feet, the whole is surrounded by a low ditch and bank, near but 
within which lie three outlying stones and two mounds. And 
beyond the earth circle stands a fourth outlying stone called the 
Hele stone. Myinvestigations lead me to conclude that these works 
were executed at two different times ; and that the megalithic circle, 
the five trilithons, the outer earth circle, the three outlying stones, 
the two mounds and the Hele stone were all plotted, planned and 
executed at one time ; and that the smallstones were added, or begun 
to be added, some 500 or 600 years after the megalithic portion 
of the work was completed. One thing is certain, viz., that the earth 
circle is so good a circle that it could not have been set out after 
the ground between it and its centre had been cumbered by the 
great stones of the Temple. JBesides all these there are two 
earthworks, known as the large and the smaller Cursus, also a 
large number of barrows and a low earthwork called the Avenue. 
All these barrows, the large and smaller Cursus, the Avenue and 
earthworks, I am satisfied are of a date long subsequent to 
Stonehenge proper. Unless, perhaps, we except certain long 
barrows which may have been made by the people who built the 
more ancient portion of Stonehenge. 
That ancient portion I cannot doubt was a Temple to the Sun 
and supplied a kind of observatory for ascertaining the days 
when special sacrifices should be made to the Sun. And it was 
built by a people who knew that the year contained 365 whole 
days. Their daily sacrifice would be made before one of the 30 
upright stones of the outer circle, each day before a different stone 
till the 30th would tell them that a month had ended. Thus, 
in the 12 months, 360 out of the 365 days would be 
accounted for. And as it would be more convenient that the 
remaining five days should be distributed among the months, 
than added to any one of the months, each alternate month 
_except the last would have 31 days, and to each of the five 31st 
days a trilithon was dedicated. Their year commenced with the 
