By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S. 



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Nicholson, Dr. B. [1824—1892] : Elizabethan scholar. 

 1880. Stonehenge. Antiquary, n.s., II., 150 — 151. 

 " It is said, also, that the now missing stone outside the outer circle, at the 

 back of the central trilithon, pointed to the sun's setting on the shortest 

 day." 



Nilsson, Sveil [b. 1787]: Archceologist. 

 1866. Stonehenge. Trans. Ethnological ^oc, n.s., IV., 244 — 263. 

 Stonehenge is a solar temple of the Bronze Age. In Sweden there is an 

 ancient monument called " stone-gallows," viz., two triliths in the province 

 of Halland. Thinks that the constructors of Stonehenge were Phoenicians, 

 and that it was connected with the rites of Baal ; being older than Druidism. 



1868. Primitive Scandinavia; Third Edition; 8vo., 



lxxix., 272 ; with xvi. plates : London. 



The introduction is by Sir Jno. Lubbock (Lord Avebury) . This is the first 

 edition in English. The author compares the tombs of the Stone Age 

 with the dwellings of the Esquimaux (p. 124). He was the first to 

 recognise the division of European history into the three great eras — the 

 Ages of Stone, of Bronze, and of Iron. 



North, Rev. G-eo. 1710—1772] : Numismatist, etc. 



Visited Stonehenge during a tour in 1750 [See Nichols' Anecdotes, V., 434]. 



Notes and Queries [1850 — 1901]; 4to. (weekly): London. 



As many brief communications relating to the "Wiltshire stone-circles have 

 appeared in the pages of " N. & Q." it may be well to include them all 

 under the name of that journal. The volumes are in sets or series of 

 twelve each ; two volumes to each year. Unless otherwise specified, the 

 articles refer to Stonehenge. 



P. P., Series 1, Yol. IV., p. 57 : " Henge " is from horsa, hengist, 



or hengst — a horse; and means "big"; as we say "horse- 



chesnut." Thus " Stonehenge " is simply " big stones." 

 E. A.M., 214 : in A.S., or English, the description cannot follow 



the thing described, as " P.P." would make it do. 

 Theophylact, 328 : The stones of Stonehenge do " hang," so 



that the name means hanging-stones. 

 Gripping, ThOS., 1, X., 463 : asks if the stones are of foreign 



white marble ; and were they brought from abroad ? 

 Mimmi, 1, XI., 126 : a query. Fisher, P. H., 228 : quotes 



from Townson, Hoare, etc. M., 369 : describes the sarsens. 



The granitic stones may be boulders. 



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