By William Long, Esq., M.A. 327 



under the eye, cliarmed them. The great stones of the great circles 

 at Abury were not by them discern'd to stand in circles, nor could 

 they easily be persuaded of it. But these of the sanctuary they 

 still talk of with pleasure and regret." 



Outside this temple, and at a little more than a foot below the 

 surface. Dr. Tooidc, then living at Marlborough, found in 1678 the 

 ground full of human skulls and bones. The feet lay towards the 

 temple. In a letter to Aubrey, from which an extract is given be- 

 low, the Doctor describes his discovery, as well as the professional 

 use which he made of it, for the benefit of his fortunate patients at 

 Marlborough.^ "Mr. Aubrey saj'^s, sharp and form'd flints were 

 found among them."^ 



The Kennet Avenue. 



Of the Kennet avenue, the eastern part of which represented the 

 neck of the serpent, and which narrowed as it mounted Kennet 

 Hill to join the head, Stukeley says, " Mr. Smith living here, in- 

 formed me that when he was a schoolboy, the Kennet avenue was 

 entire, from end to end." As however the stones composing it 

 covered a few feet of ground which the GFreens and Griffins coveted, 



' " In AVilts, between Kinnett and Overton, on the lands of one Captayne 

 Walter Grubb, I approach'd ■workmen digging not far off the roade; I inquir'd 

 their digging, who answer'd, ' making new boundaries to enclose for French grasse 

 or 5 foQe.' Said the men, 'we throw up many bones here, but know not of what 

 creatures.' I quickly perceiv'd they were humane, and came the next day and 

 dugg for them, and stored myselfe with many bushcUs, of which I made a noble 

 medicine that relieved many of my distressed neighbours : the bones large, and 

 almost rotten, but the teeth extreme and wonderfully white, hard and sound. 

 (No tobacco taken in those daies.) About eighty yards from it is a large spher- 

 ical foundation, (he means circular) whose diameter is forty yards, by which yoii 

 know the circuit. Within this large temple there is another orbc, whose sphere is 

 15 yards in diameter ; round about this temi)le a most exact plaine and superticies ; 

 under this superficies layd the bones soe close one by another, that scul touchcth 

 scul. I exposed 2 or 3, and never took up a bone of them to observe and sec in 

 wliat manner they lay. I perceived their feet lay toward the temple, and but 

 little more tlian a foot under the superficies. At the feet of the first order, I 

 saw lay the licads of the next, as above, their feet intending the temple ; I 

 really bcliovo the whole plaine, on that even ground, is full of dead bodies." 



(Dr. ]{. Toope to Mr. Aubrey, from Ilristoll, 1 Dec, 168r>.) 



Note by Mr. Aubrey relating to the above letter. " This was discovered in 

 187K, and Dr. Toopo was lafbly at tlie Golgotha again to supply a defect of 

 medicine he had from licnce." 



^ Stukclcv's Abury, p, ^3. 



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