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



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1893. Edition by H. B. Wheatley ; ten vols., c. 400 pp. each: 

 8vo. : London. 



Pepys visited Stonehenge in June, 1668. Found the stones " as prodigious 

 as any tales I ever heard of them, and worth going this journey to see. 

 God knows what their use was ! — they are hard to tell, but yet may be 

 told." [Vol. VIII., p. 43 of Wheatley's edition]. 



Afterwards Pepys visited Abury [VIII., 49], of which a most interesting 

 account is given. He also examined the sarsens in the fields east of 

 Abury, " so thick as to cover the ground, which makes me think the less 

 of the wonder of Stonage" and Abury, for here was plenty of material for 

 the construction of these monuments. 



Petrie, Hen. [1768—1842] and Rev. J. Sharpe [1769— 

 1859]. 1848. Monumenta HiSTOMCA Britannica : or materials 

 for the History of Britain from the Earliest Period, Vol. I., (all 

 published), extending to the Norman Conquest. [With intro- 

 duction by T. D. Hardy] ; fol. : 147 ; clxxiii ; 1035 ; with twenty- 

 seven plates (of coins, etc.), and folding map. London. 

 This important work (which one of its reviewers describes as a 

 " colossal fragment ") includes excerpts relating to Britain from the Greek 

 and Latin authors, Ancient British Coins, reprints of Gildas, Nennius, 

 Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Henry of Huntingdon, the Welsh MSS., 

 etc., etc. It was compiled for, and published by, the Commissioners of 

 Public Kecords. 



Petrie, Prof. W. M. P. [b. 1853] : Archaeological surveyor. 

 1877. Inductive Metrology; 8vo., xiii., 153 : London. 



The author attempts " to determine the ancient standards of measure 

 (linear only) from the monuments." The internal diameter of the sarsen 

 circle at Stonehenge is exactly 100 Koman feet ; being 1163 of our inches. 

 This would go to confirm the date (fifth century A.D.) assigned to the 

 structure by Fergusson. 



1878. Metkology, etc. Journ. Anthrop. Inst., VIII., 106 



—116. 



The author ascertains the standard measures formerly used in any country 

 by taking the dimensions of structures as probably multiples in round 

 numbers of a unit then in use. The unit employed by the builders of 

 Stonehenge, Mr. Petrie believes to have been the Eoman foot ; equal to 

 11-64 English inches. His own measured plans of Stonehenge are now 

 in the British Museum (Map Department), where they can be referred to 

 by any reader, 



1880. Stonehenge ; 4to., 34 pp., with two plans : London. 



The first plan is of the stone circles in their present state, on a scale of 1 to 

 200 : the second is a folding plan showing also the avenue, etc. These 



