160 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



Eeference Libraries. 

 In the compilation of this bibliography my work has chiefly been 

 done in the Birmingham Free Reference Library, the Birmingham 

 " Old " Library, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the "Wiltshire 

 Society's admirable Library and Museum at Devizes. To the 

 officials of these institutions I am much indebted ; and I have also 

 received most valuable assistance from the Eev. E. H. Goddard, M. A. 

 In the Museums and Libraries at Devizes and Salisbury the County 

 of "Wilts possesses local institutions which are deserving of the 

 highest praise ; and which only require continued aid and develop- 

 ment to make them equal to anything of the kind in England. 



Chronological Classification. 



The books, etc., named in the preceding pages have been arranged 

 under author's names, alphabetically, as being the most convenient 

 method for reference. But an arrangement in order of dates of 

 publication brings out many points — such as the succession of 

 theories — much better. In the following lists only the principal 

 authorities for each epoch are mdicated. 



The authors who treat — directly or indirectly — of the Wiltshire 

 stone circles may be divided, in the first place, into Ancient and 

 Modern ; and each of these classes may be sub-divided into three 

 groups : — 



Group I. Greeks and Eomans : including Herodotus, B.C. 450 ; 

 Cjesar, B.C. 51 ; Diodorus, B.C. 8 ; Strabo, A.D. 20 ; Pliny, A.D. 77 ; 

 and Tacitus, A.D. 97. All these writers give valuable information 

 about the British Isles and their inhabitants ; but of any notice of 

 Stonehenge or Avebury they are devoid — with the important ex- 

 ception that Diodorus quotes from an earlier writer (Hecataeus of 

 Abdera, B.C. 330) an important reference to a round temple dedicated 

 to the sun-god (Ajwllo) situated in an island the description of which 

 appears to identify it with Britain. Recent discoveries make it seem 

 probable that this round temple was none other than Stonehenge. 



Group II. Early British Authors : A.D. 560 to A.D. 796 : 

 including Gildas, Bede, Nennius, etc. None of these mention 



