108 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



Phene, Jno. S. 1892. Stonehenge, and the Taulas of 

 Minorca. Times, 20 Sept., p. 6. 



The Taulas were not roofed, either with stone or timber. The Talayots are 

 the truncated bases of old towers. 



1806. Some Hitherto Little-Noticed Earthworks in 



Britain. Joum. Brit. Archceol. Assoc., LI I., 180 — 205. 



" Most of the stone monuments of a pre-Homan and pre-Christian age were 

 not Druidic, nor even in any way religious, but civil, judicial, and com- 

 mercial, in connection with the extremely ancient metal traffic of Britain " 

 (p. 204). 



" Avebury as much transcends the sublimity of Stonehenge, as the Alps 

 transcend that of the little churches which decorate the elevations at their 

 feet" (p. 205). 



Phillips, Prof. Jno. [1800—1874]: Geologist. 

 L858. Rocks of Stonehence. [See Long's Stonehenge, p. 71.] 



Mentions ^'ales, Cornwall, and the elvans or greenstone dykes near 

 Dartmoor, as possible sources from which the "greenstones" of Stonehenge 

 may have been derived. 



1871. Geology of Oxford, etc.; 8vo., xxiv., 523 ; illus- 

 trated : Oxford. 



Avebury, p. 22 ; sarsen stones, 443, 446 — 7. " I have never found shells 

 in any of these (sarsen) stones lying in their native beds, and have BOine 

 scruple in mentioning that they do occur in a layer in one of the blocks 

 at Stonehenge. But as I did not choose by chiselling that monumental 

 stone to attract attention to it, probably it may for many years to come 

 escape all injury except that which it must sutler from the strokes of time." 



Philpot. Mrs. J. H. The Sa« kki> Tkkk ; Svo., xvi.. 179 ; 

 illustrated : London. 



Important in connection with the suggestion by Mr. Arthur Kvans thai the 



"original sacred object" which stood in the centre of Stonehenge was in 

 fact a Sacn d Zln i . 



Picton. Sir J. A. [isor. — 1SS ( .)] : Anfi^mirg ami architect. 

 1881. Wiltshire Place-Names. Joum. Brit. Archceol. Assoc., 



XXXVII., 22<)— L'.-.S. [Nralsn Wilts Mag.. XX, 10—26.] 

 In Wilts the Celtic elements in the place-names almost entirely disappear, 

 and are replaced l>y pure Anglo-Saxon. 



Pinkerton. John [1758 L826] : Scottish historian. 

 I7S7. Dissertation on the Oiugih am> PEOGKEfifi of THE 



