r>4 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



mentions that six architraves only remain upon the outer stone circ e, 

 and three upon the great trilithons. He thinks that Stonehenge must be 

 a ''British monument "; and that the story which assigns its erection to 

 Arabrosius may be true, seeing that his name is still retained in the 

 "neighbouring town of Ambresbury." 



G-alpin, Rev. A. J. 1896. Wayland Smith's Cave. Rept. 

 Marlboro' Coll. X. If. Society, No. 44, pp. 88— 91; with one plate. 



It is now a cromlech, but was formerly part of a long barrow. It is first 

 mentioned as " Welandes Smithan " in a charter of Backed, A.D. 955. 



Garden, Professor Jas. : Of Aberdeen. 

 1770. Circular [Stone] Monuments in Scotland. Archasologia, 

 L, 312—319. 



A good and early account of the stone circles near Aberdeen, etc. Mentions 

 Stonehenge in two foot-notes. 



Geoffrey of Monmouth [1100— 1154] : Bishop of St. Asaph; 



and chronicler. 



1147. Historium RSGUM Brit ANNL53 [Final MS.]. Printed in 



1508 (4tu); 1517; 1587. 

 1718. Translated by Aaron Turner ; 8vo. : London. 

 1842. Edition by J. A. Giles; 8vo. : London. 

 1851. Sir Thos. Phillips: ArchaeoL Journ., VI II.. 281—290. 

 1858. Sir F. Madden: Areh»oL Journ., XV., 299—312. 

 1866. Morley's " English Writers." 

 1848. " Six Old English Chronicles " ; 8vo. : London. 

 1883. Etudes Historiqnes Bretonnes ; l>y L. A. LemoyiuMle la 



Borderie. 



Geoffrey's sources of information seem to have been (1) Nennius ; (2) a 

 book of Breton legends obtained from his friend Walter " C'alenius," 

 Archdeacon of Oxford [not Walter Map]; (3) possibly certain contemporary 

 unwritten legends; and (many have assorted) i h his own imagination. 

 His hook sprang instantly into popularity, and was widely read both in 

 Britain and abroad. 



His account of Stonehon^e relates ; 1 ) that about thu year 170 A.l >. there 

 was a treacherous massacre of four hundred and sixty British chiefs by 

 •at the in. mastery of Ambrius"; (2) that subsequently 

 A nr. lius Ambrosius desired to ( reel a monument to the chiefs thus slain ; 

 Co he is recommended by the prophet Merlin to remove the " Giants' 



Danoe " Erom Killaraufl la [reland to Saliabwy Plain for this purpose 



