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assuming that the Belg® were thus exceluded from Ave- 
bury, is it not likely that they would provide a * Locus 
Consecratus ’ at some central point within their own border 
— a place for their judicial assemblies, like the Gaulish 
Temple, “in finibus Carnutum, qu& regio totius Gallis 
media habetur?’ (Czxs. BG, vi.) And may not Stone- 
henge have been the substitute so provided?” With 
respect to this wonderful structure, the same writer ob- 
serves: “If the Belg® were the builders, it follows neces- 
sarily that this temple was erected after the vale became 
Belgie territory—i. e., after the Wansdyke had been 
raised,’’ and therefore we regard Wansdyke as older than 
Stonehenge. Avebury, which is outside the Wansdyke, 
is probably much older than either, but as to its date it is 
impossible to conjecture. 
Collinson, in his History of Somerset, considers the Wans- 
dyke to be the work of Divitiacus, who is mentioned by 
Csar, who tells us that he was king of the Suessiones, a 
people inhabiting the country around Soisson, and in 
Cxsar’s time (nosträ etiam memoriä) the most powerful 
chief in all Gaul. He tells us that he had not only ob- 
tained supremacy over a great part of Belgie Gaul, but 
also over a great part of Britain: “ Qui quam magne partis 
harum regionum tum etiam Britannie imperium obtinu- 
erit.” “By what steps,” observes Dr. Guest, “he had 
obtained this supremacy, we are not told; but we may 
surmise that it was by his aid that the Belg® pushed their 
conquests into the interior of the island.” If, as is pro- 
bable, the British king who opposed Cxsar belonged to 
the Belgie race, then the Belg® must have obtained posses- 
sion of the vale of Aylesbury and the plains of Hertford- 
shire, previous to the year 55 B.C., and we may infer that 
they acquired these distriets under the leadership of 
