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Bibliography of Stonehengc and Avebury. 



bronze implements, but no iron. Stonehenge therefore belongs to the 

 Bronze Age, and is older, not only than the Romans, but than the iron- 

 using tribes who inhabited this island at the time of the Roman invasion. 



Avebury, Lord. 1868. Introduction to Nilsson's "Primitive 

 Scandinavia " : 8vo. ; London. 



The " editor's introduction" occupies pp. ix — xlv. His " Primaeval Period " 

 extends from the first appearance of man down to the commencement of 

 the Christian era ; but this is restricted to that part of Europe which lies 

 north of the Alps. This period is divided into : — (1) Palaeolithic Stone 

 Age ; (2) Neolithic Stone Age ; (3) Bronze Age ; (4) Iron Age. Remarks 

 (p. xli.) that " we are apt to blame the Eastern peasants who use the grand 

 old monuments of Egypt or Assyria as mere stone-quarries ; but we forget 

 that even in our own country, Avebury, the most magnificent of Druidical 

 remains, was almost destroyed for a profit of a few pounds." 



1870. Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Con- 

 dition of Man. 8vo. : London. 

 1870, Second Edition ; 1874, Third Edition ; 1882, Fourth Edition ; 

 8vo., xx., 548 ; with 5 plates and twenty woodcuts ; London. 

 Has frontispiece of Stonehenge from the N.W. (by Griset). Worship of 

 Stones, pp. 302—312 ; Religion, pp. 200—388. 



1890, Fifth Edition. 



1872. Review of Fergusson's "Rude Stone Monuments." 



Nature ; V., 386—389. 



"Although few now regard Stonehenge as a Druidical temple; still 

 archaeologists are almost unanimous in regarding it as very ancient." 

 But Mr. Fergusson regards all megalithic monuments as being post- 

 Christian in date. — " Such a conclusion seems to me [Lubbock] entirely 

 inconsistent with architectural history." 



1872. Vandalism at Stonehenge. Tvmes, 17 Aug., p. 9. 



Has heard that the "cursus " adjoining Stonehenge is being ploughed up. 

 [See Antrobus.] 



1878. Presidential Address; Wilts Mag., XVII., 8— 19. 



"The best evidence as to the age of Stonehenge seems to me derivable from 

 the contents of the tumuli surrounding it" — which belong to the Bronze 

 Age. 



L880. L'kekace to Kains-Jacksons "On: Ancient 



Monuments " ; 4t<>. : London. 



The preface occupies pp. ii vi. Writes of " Stonehenge, the sanctity of 



which is attested, no! only 1>\ iis own evidence, bu1 bj the tumuli which 



duster reverently around it." Kefers these tumuli to the Bronze Age. 



