By William Long, Esq., M.A. 317 



within this monument, was made in process of time for the con- 

 venience of the roades. 



" One of the Monuments, in the street that runnes East and 

 West, [like that above Holy-head] is converted into a pigstye, or 

 cow-house ; — as is to be seen in the roade. 



" On the brow of the hill above Kynet, on the right hand of the 

 high way which goes from Bristow to Marleborough, is such a 

 monumentasinpl. (2, sec.2. andpl.3, f. 1.) called .... The stones 

 are fewer and five feet high, .... in number; most of them (now) 

 are fallen downe. I doe well remember there is a circular trench 

 about this monument or temple.^ Here remaines a kind of solemne 

 walk from Kynet to the top of the hiU where this monument is. 

 It is at least a quarter of a mile in length, .... foot broad, and 

 the stones distant one from another about . . . foot. West Kynet 

 stands in the angle where the walke from Aubury hither, and that 

 from the top of the hill did joine. It lies by the side of a little 

 rivulet called Kynet, which runnes to Marleborough, from whence 

 Cynetium hath its denomination : and 'tis likely that here might in 

 the old time have been the celle or Convent for the priests belong- 

 ing to these temples. 



" I am enformed that as one rides from Marlebo- 



Mr. Edw. Philips. , ^ -r. r -n , o t> ^ 



rough to Compton Basset [a village not far Irom hence 

 Westward] are to be seen Houses, part whereof are stones pitched 

 on end, as big as those of Stonehenge. 



" As to the Etymologie of the word Aubury : it is vulgarly cal- 

 led Abury : and is writt of late times by ignorant scribes Aucbiiry : 

 (the e quiescent being interposed after y" old fashion). But in the 

 leeier-book of Malmesbury* Abbey it is writt Aubury; 



• This Mannour ° m t> i_ 



did belong to that and SO it is in the Records of y" Tower. But here 



''^' (methinkcs) I sec some Reader smile to himselfe, 



thinkinge how I have strained this Place to be of my owno Name : 



not heeding that there is a letter's difference, which quite alters 



• " Mr. Aubury erred in saying there was a circular ditch on Overton Hill." 

 Stukeley's Abury, p. 32. 



» The name may have been in the book, as Malmsbiuy Abbey had a small 

 pension and a few shillings of tithe from Uuckhamptou in this parish. But 

 Abury Manor uovor bulougod to Malmsbury Abbey. 



