NO. 6 



GREAT STONE MONUMENTS FEWKES 



interpreted by different authors. This monument consists of many 

 monoliths and trilithons, some of which are more or less artificially 

 worked, others natural, surrounded by rings of stone. 



Fig. 2. — Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England (restored). 



Fig. 3. — Stonehenge. Wiltshire, England, from Lubbock. 



The stone circles of Avebury, measuring 1,200 feet across, were 

 the largest and finest megalithic monuments in existence, " exceeding 

 Stonehenge as a cathedral does a parish church." Other stone circles 

 occur at Stanton Drew in Somersetshire, in the Orkneys and other 

 English islands. 



