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take them to be flocks of sheep (wethers) ... Of this kind of stones 

 are framed the two stupendous antiquities of Aubury and Stone-heng." 

 (p. 96.) 



Aubrey affirms both Stonehenge and Avebury " to have been temples, and 

 built by the Britons." He also remarks: — " On Salisbury plaines, es- 

 pecially about Stonehenge, are bustards." 



Aubrey, John. 1686 — 7. Eemains of Gentilisme, etc. [MS.] 

 1881. Edition by Jas. Britten for Folk-tore Society ; 8vo., vii., 

 273; London. 



"Tradition regarding the Pillars in Salisbury Cathedral. — Tis strange to 

 see how errour hath crept in upon the people, who believe that the pillars 

 of this church were cast, forsooth, as chandlers make candles . . 

 and the like errour runnes from generation to generation concerning 

 Stoneheng, that the stones there are artificial." (p. 251.) 



Austen, Major H. H. Godwin [b. 1834]. Survey of India, 

 etc. 



1872 — 76. Stone Monuments of Khasi Teibes; Journ. Anthrop. 

 Inst. ; I., 122 — 143, with four plates : and V., 37 — 41 ; with two 

 plates. 



Erected to honour those ancestors whose spirits have brought good fortune 

 to their descendants. 



Avebury, Lord, (Sir John Lubbock) [b. 1834] : Archaeologist. 

 1865. Prehistoric Times ; 8vo., London. 



1869, Second Edition : 1872, Third Edition : 1878, Fourth Edition; 

 1890, Fifth Edition ; 1900, Sixth Edition (revised) ; 8vo., xxxii., 

 616, frontispiece and forty plates : London. 



Stonehenge is " a monument of the Bronze Age, though apparently it was 

 not all erected at one time, the inner circle of small, un wrought, blue-stones 

 being probably older than the rest." It was " used as a temple," but it is 

 wo* Druidical. See pp. 52; 103; 104 ; 113 ; 114; with Plate No. XXIII., 

 Stonehenge from the N.W. ; from a photograph by Valentine. 



: 1866. Secret of the Druidical Stones: [Avebury; 



Stonehenge ; etc.] Athenoeum ; pp. 18, 95, 136, 172. 

 In a series of four letters the writer strongly opposes the views of Mr. Jas. 

 Fergusson as to the post-Roman date of Stonehenge. For (1) its name — 

 given by the Saxons — proves that this people knew nothing of its origin ; 

 (2) its plan is unlike that of any post-Roman erection ; and (3) it is 

 surrounded by and plainly connected with numerous tumuli (in some of 

 which fragments of its stones have been found) which contain stone and 



