60 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avehury. 



Guest [Schreiber], Lady Charlotte [1812—1895]. 

 1849. The Mabinogion; three vols., 8vo., c. 400 pp. each: London. 

 The valuable early Welsh MS. known as the " Eed Book of Hergest," is 

 in the library of Jesus College, Oxford. In her book Lady Guest gives 

 facsimiles and translations of this and other ancient Welsh MSS. 



Guest, Dr. Edwin [1800—1880]: Historian. 

 1851. Belgic Ditches axd Probable Date of Stonehenge. 

 Journ. Archceol. Inst, VIII., 143 — 157, with map. 

 Enumerates three successive boundary-lines : — (1) Bokerly-ditch and 

 Combe-bank; (2) Knook Castle and Tilshead ditches, etc.; (3) the 

 Wansdike. Stonehenge was probably erected by the Belgse, between 300 

 and 100 B.C. Avebury (lying north of the Wansdyke) was retained as 

 their temple by the Dobuni ; which led to Stonehenge being erected by 

 the Belgae for their own use. 



1851. Early English Settlements in S. Britain. 



Memoirs on Wilts ; Ai-chxol. Inst., 28 — 72 : with map : 8vo. : 

 London. 



Fixes the date 463 A.D. for the accession of Ambrosius, and 508 A.D. for 

 his death. The Welsh triads seem to indicate that at Amesbury there was 

 then the principal " nawt " or choir of the British dominion. And the 

 events — such as the slaughter of certain British chiefs by the Saxons, the 

 burial of Ambrosius, etc. — which were really connected with this Christian 

 monastery (all traces of which were obliterated l)y the Saxons) became 

 afterwards associated in popular tradition with the tangible and conspicuous 

 ruins of the far older temple of Stonehenge. 



1854. Etymology of the Word "Stonehenge." Proc. 



Philolog. Soc. ; VI., 31—35. 



" Stonehenge" means a suspended stone, and the term was applied to the 



imposts. The early writers generally used the plural form — stone-henges; 



for each trilithon was a "stonbeng." The term hengel is a derivative of 



hang; and, like its primitive, it simply meant something that was 



suspended. 



— 1859. Welsh and English Rule in Somersetshire after 



the capture of Bath ; A.D. 577. Archceol. Journ., XVI., 105 — 131 ; 

 with folding map. 



Writes (p. 123) of the Sistoria Britonum as "Jeffrey's romance, that 

 unhappy work which is everywhere found darkening the pm'e light of our 

 early history." 



— 1883. Origines Celtics ; two vols., 8vo., xxviii., 409 ; 



with two plates ; and iv., 538 ; with eight maps : London. 

 Includes reprints of the author's earlier papers, as cited above. These two 



