316 Aburi/. 



ascends up the hill to another monument of the same kind [but 

 less] as iu plate (2, sec. 2.) The distance of the stones in the walk, and 

 the breadth of it, is much about the distance of a noble walke of 

 trees of that length : and very probable this walke was made for 

 Processions. 



Mdm. The great stone at Au- " Perhaps at this angular turning, 

 bxu-y's towne's end, where this • i , i .i. y-« .7 r n j^n f 



Walke begins, feU down in Au- "^'S^^ ^^ *^^ ^'^^'^ [«^ Convent] of 

 tumn 16S4, and broke in two, or the Priests belonging to these Tem- 

 threc pieces : it stood but two foot plgg; to be sure, they did not dwell 

 deep in the earth. From Mr. „ „ ,, i ,t • n i-, i- 



Walter Sloper, of Munckton, At- ^^f ^^'^^ *^_^™ ' ^^^^ *^^"' habitations 

 torney. might hapily be the occasion of the 



rise of this village, Kynet. 



" Within the circumference or Borough of this Monument, is now 

 the village of Aubury, which stands per crucem, as is to be seen by 

 Scheme ('pi. 2, sec. 1.) The houses are built of the Frustums of those 

 huge stones (for hereabout are no other stones to be found (except 

 • Parson Brims- fiiuts) which they iuvado with great sledges. I have 

 donofMounckton. ^,g,,j^,„, Scwerdotis* for it, that these mighty stones 



(as hard as marble) may be broken in what part of them you 

 please, without any great trouble : sc. make a fire on that line of 

 the stone, where you would have it crack; and after the stone is 

 well heated, draw over a line with cold water, and immediately give 

 a knock with a smith's sledge, and it will break like the collets at 

 the Glass-house.^ 



" The Church is likewise built of them : and the Mannour-house 

 w'^'' was built by the Dunches, temp. Reg. Elizabethae : and also 

 another faire House not far from that. 



" By reason of the crosse streates, houses, gardens, orchards, 

 and several small closes, and the fractures made in this Antiquity 

 for the building of those houses, it was no very easy taske for me 

 to trace out the Vestirjia and so to make this Survey. Wherefore 

 I have dis-empestred the Scheme from the enclosures, and houses, 

 &c. : w'*" are altogether foreigne to this Antiquity, and would but 

 have clowded and darkned the reall Designe. The crosse street 



' Compare with this extract from the 'Monumenta Britannica' Aubrey's account 

 of these stones in his " Natural History of Wilts," p. 44, 1847. 



