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Hele^-^ stone, (figure 78-5), and two smaller stones, (figure 78-2 and 

 3), all unworked, occvipy definite positions with reference to the rising 

 and setting of the sun at the Summer and Winter Solstices. 



Figure 81 shows a more detailed drawing reconstruction of the 

 monument or "temple" itself. "The monument proper, consists of a 

 circle of Sarsen Trilithons^*, enclosing a circle of upright foreign 



Fig. 82. — Ground plan of the "temple" at Stonehenge. Drawing by the author. 



Stones. ^^ Within these, are five detached Sarsen Trilithons, of grad- 

 uated height. These five Trilithons are set horseshoe-wise. Before 



"The term "Hele" is applied to this stone because it conceals the sun at 

 rising- on the day of the summer solstice. The term is derived from the Anglo- 

 Saxon verb helan, to conceal. 



"The trilith or trilithon is "a form of megalithic monument resembling a 

 gateway, consisting of two upright stones supportng a horizontal one. 



'^The so-called "foreign stones" are those that have been imported and are 

 composed of materials not found within a hundred miles or more of Salisbury 

 Plain. They may be generally classed as of "Syenite." 



