130 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avehury. 



Stephens, Jno. L. 1852. Incidents of Travel in Centeal 

 America, etc. ; two vols., 8vo. ; illustrated : New York. 

 At Copan (in Honduras) are altars and statues of large size and most 

 elaborately carved out of "a soft gritstone." In the quarries it was 

 noticed that any blocks containing hard flinty lumps had been rejected — 

 "an inference from this is that the sculptor had no instruments with 

 which he could cut so hard a stone, and, consequently, that iron was 

 unknown." No objects of iron or of any other metal were found in these 

 extensive ruins, but many pointed flints, with which, it is conjectured, the 

 carvings were executed. 



Stevens, E. T. [1828 — 1878]: Archmologist. 

 1866. Stonehenge and Abury. Genfs Mag., n.s., I., 68 — 70. 

 The ground-plan of Stonehenge resembles those of the " modern ling-yoni 

 temples of the Buddhists." Mentions several notable workings in stone, 

 known to have been executed without the use of iron. 



1867, c. Guide to the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury; 



8vo., xvi., xi., 160: London. 



The process of stone-working known as " pecking" is described on p. 153. 

 A hard pointed stone tool was held vertically to the surface to be worked. 

 "The mortice-holes in the lintel-stones at Stonehenge were, probably, 

 worked by ' pecking,' for the marks of a pointed tool are to be seen within 

 one of the mortice-holes of the fallen impost of the central trilithon." 



1870. Flint Chips; 8vo., xxvi., 11 — 593; with index, 



xxxviii. ; illustrated : London. 



Mainly a guide to the excellent Blackmore Museum, at Salisbury, which 

 contains a good model of Stonehenge. 



1882. Jottings on . . . Stonehenge ; 8vo., xii., 180 ; 



with ninety-five woodcuts and folding map : Salisbury. 

 An account of the route from Salisbury up the Avon Valley to Amesbury 

 and Stonehenge; returning over Lake Down and Camp Hill. "Perhaps 

 the greatest charm of Stonehenge is the mystery in which its origin and 

 purpose are shrouded, and, in a certain way, evil will be the day that sees 

 this veil lifted from it " (p. 79). Tlie two cavities in the so-called small 

 bluestone " impost" may have been elf-pots (p. 96). Assigns the erection 

 of Stonehenge to " an early period in the Bronze Age " (p. 102) ; and 

 thinks that it was a temple. 



Stillingfleet, Edward [1635—1699]: Bislwi) of Worcester. 

 1685. Origines Britannic^e; fol. : London. Later Editions, 

 1837 ; 1810 ; 1842 (edition by Pantin, two vols., 8vo. : Oxford.) 

 1710. Edition of Stillingfieet's " "Works," with " Life," by Bentley; 



