46 



Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



Ambresbury Monastery, pp. 333 — 343. In Vol. II., p. 321, a footnote 

 mentions Stonehenge. [See Ingram ; and Hamper.] 



Duke, Rev. Edward [1779—1852] : of Lake House : Antiquary. 

 1809. British Antiquities found at Lake. Antiq. and Topog. 

 Cabinet, Vol. V. (March No.) 



The barrows at Lake (about two miles S. of Stonehenge) yielded to their 

 owner (Mr. Duke) some remarkable objects of gold, amber, bronze and bone. 



— 1824. Stonehenge not surrounded by Woods, etc. 

 Gent's Mag., XCIV., ii, 300—303 ; 406—407. 



The sites of the ancient stone circles or temples were " ever in the most 

 open countries." There are also notes in this volume on the same subject 

 by " V.," p. 40; and by " Merlin," pp. 108—111. 



1846. Druidical Temples of Wilts ; 8vo., viil, 203 ; 



illustrated : London. 



Upon the Wiltshire Downs " our ingenious ancestors " . . . laid out 

 a sort of celestial map, in which the five planets are shown. Stonehenge 

 represented the planet Saturn ; the two circles at Abury stood for the Sun 

 and Moon ; and they all are grouped round Silbury Hill [=the Earth ] as a 

 centre. Stonehenge is specially described on pp. 110 — 176; and Avebury 

 on pp. 43—72. 



1849. Theory of Stonehenge. Gent's Mag., n.s., XXXIL, 



581 — 583 : with two plates. 



The cuts are (1) Stonehenge as it was: — "the wheel of Time, or the 

 Perpetual Calendar of the Druids"; and (2) Stonehenge as it is (from the 

 west). Urges that " Stonehenge, originally constructed as a temple for 

 worship, was at the same time rendered a calendar for the computation 

 of time." 



1851. Letter /-c Stoneheni.i:. Memoirs on Wilts [ArchseoL 



Inst.]; 113—120: 8vo. : London. 



Confirms and extends the views expressed in his book upon this subject 

 (see 1846). The blue-stones were originally forty in number, and they 

 formed tho first part of the tomple to be erected. 



1S00. Sale ok Antiquities helon^in^ to the late Rev. E. 



1 hike. Wilts Mag., XX VI 1 1.. L'GO — 262. 

 The sale (by Sotheby, Wilkinson, A Hodge,) was held on 10th July, 1895. 

 Sir A. W. Pranks bought most of the objects for (he British Museum, 

 giving I'll for the amber ornaments found at Lake. General Pitt- Rivers 



secured for X'.'H) the stone mould for casting celts, found at liulford. Tho 



Wiltshire Society obtained a set of bronze armlets (from Lake) for throe 

 guineas. 



