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Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



1525. First printed edition ; 8vo. : London. 



1838. Edition by Stevenson, for English Hist. Soc, 8vo., xli., 122 : 

 London. 



1878. "Six old English Chronicles" (translation): edited by 

 Dr. J. A. Giles (Bonn's Series), 8vo. : London. 



1899. Edition by Prof. Williams [Cymmrodorion Record Series]. 

 The historical value of this book " depends mainly upon the absence of 

 better authorities." The only MSS. extant are two which are in the 

 University Library, Cambridge. "The whole tone of his work shows 

 Gildas to have been a man of gloomy temper, irritated and saddened by 

 the triumphs of the Saxons, and profoundly conscious of the vices and 

 weaknesses of his countrymen " (Diet. Nat. Biog.). He appears to have 

 retired to Brittany, and there written his book in a monastery which he 

 founded at Buys, near Vannes. Gildas describes the wretched state of 

 Britain after the departure of the Bomans ; and tells how Vortigern 

 foolishly invited the aid of the " fierce and impious Saxons." He praises 

 the conduot of a British ohief or king — Ambrosius Aurelianus — but neither 

 mentions Stonehenge, nor any massacre near that spot of the Britons by 

 the Saxons ; indeed the greater part of his book consists of a series of 

 religious harangues and tirades. 



Gilpin, Rev. Wm. [1724—1804]: Author. 

 1798. Observations on the Western Parts of England, 

 etc. : 8vo., xvi., 359 ; with eighteen plates : London. 

 " All the plain [Salisbury], at least that part of it near Stonehenge, is one 

 vast Cemetary ... By the rays of a setting sun the distant barrows 

 are most conspicuously seen. Every little summit being tipped with a 

 splendid light, while the plain is in shadow, is at that time easily dis- 

 tinguished " (pp. 77—95). 



Gilray, Thos. 1876. Legends of Pre-Boman Britain. 

 Dublin Univ. Mag., LXXXVIL, 385—402. 



" I am inclined to think that the sources of the book [GeolYroy's ITistoria 

 Bri/onum] are three-fold — Calenius's MSS. ; stories floating about and 

 told to Geoffrey by various people ; and Geoffrey's own imagination." 



Gipping, Thos. 1854. " A QUERY." .Notes and Queries, X, 463. 

 Asks about tho nature of the " larger stones" of Stonehenge. 



Giraldus de Barri, called " Cambrensis " [1146—1220]: 



Welsh, priest. 

 1 1ST. ToPOGKAl'HIA IIlHKKNH A (MS.). 



1002. Pint printed ; foL: Frankfort 



