108 Bibliography of Stonelienge and Avehiiry. 



Fhene, Jno. S. 1892. Stonehenge, and the Taulas of 



Minorca. Times, 20 Sept., p. 6. 



The Taulas were not roofed, either with stone or timber. The Talayots are 

 the truncated bases of old towers. 



1896. Some Hitherto Little-Noticed Earthworks in 



Britain. Journ. Brit. Archa;ol. Assoc, LII., 180 — 205. 



" Most of the stone monuments of a pre-Roman and pre-Christian age were 

 not Druidic, nor even in any way religious, but civil, judicial, and com- 

 mercial, in connection with the extremely ancient metal traffic of Britain " 

 (p. 204). 



" Avebui'y as much transcends the sublimity of Stonehenge, as the Alps 

 transcend that of the little churches which decorate the elevations at their 

 feet" (p. 205). 



Phillips, Prof. Jno. [1800—1874]: Geologist. 

 1858. ItOCKS OF Stonehenge. [See Long's Stonehenge, p. 71.] 

 Mentions Wales, Cornwall, and the elvans or greenstone dykes near 

 Dartmoor, as possible sources from which the " greenstones" of Stonehenge 

 may have been derived. 



— — 1871. Geology of Oxford, etc. ; 8vo., xxiv., 523 ; illus- 



trated : Oxford. 



Avebury, p. 22; sarsen stones, 443, 446 — 7. " I have never found shells 

 in any of these (sarsen) stones lying in their native beds, and have some 

 scruple in mentioning that they do occur in a layer in one of the blocks 

 at Stonehenge. But as I did not choose by chiselling that monumental 

 stone to attract attention to it, probably it may for many years to come 

 escape all injury except that which it must suffer from the strokes of time." 



Philpot, Mrs. J. H. The Sacred Tree ; 8vo., xvi., 179 ; 

 illustrated : London. 



Important in connection with the suggestion by Mr. Arthur Evans that the 

 " original sacred object " which stood in the centre of Stonehenge was in 

 fact a Sacred Tree. 



PictOU, Sir J. A. [1805 — 1889] : Antiquary and architeet. 

 1881. Wiltshire Place-Names. Journ. Brit. Archceol. Assoc., 

 XXXVII. , 229—238. [See also Wilts Mag., XX, 16—26.] 

 In Wilts the Celtic elements in the place-names almost entirely disappear, 

 and are replaced by pure Anglo-Saxon. 



Finkerton, John [1758 — 1826]: Scottish historian. 

 1787. Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the 



