118 Bibliography of Stonehcaye and Avebury. 



Rolleston, Prof Geo. [1829—1881]: Oxford Professor of 

 Anatomy, etc. 



1875. People of the Long Baurow Period. Joum. Anthrop. 

 Inst., V., 120 — 1*73 ; with three plates. 



The barrows examined were at the village of Nether Swell, Gloucestershire. 

 Noted great disproportion between height of the males (average 5ft. 6in.) 

 and the females (average 4ft. 10in.). Long barrows are unquestionably 

 the oldest sepulchral monuments with which we are acquainted. 



and Canon Greenwell. 1877. British Barrows; 8vo., 



xi., 763; illustrated: Oxford. 



Prof. Rolleston's portion of the work consisted in the description of the 

 crania, etc., found during the excavations by Canon Greenwell. At the 

 end of the book are two essays by Prof. Rolleston — (1) " The Prehistoric 

 Flora " (pp. 720—725) : and (2) " The Prehistoric Fauna " (pp. 725—750) 

 of this country. For Stonehenge see p. 6. Its " incompleteness " is noted 

 as a feature in which it resembles circles known to be sepulchral. For 

 the Wiltshire barrows see pp. 4, 8, 38, 54, and 56. Silbury Hill is briefly 

 described on p. 2. 



Ross, Rev. J. L. : Vicar of Avebwry and Monkton. 

 1858. The Druidical Temple at Abury, with some account of 

 Silbury; 12mo., 23 pp., with one plate: Devizes. 



Mainly an abstract from Stukeley. 



1859. Druidism in connection with Wiltshire. 



Wilts Mag., V., 149—192. 



Includes: I., Pyramidal Stones and Circles, the Kmblems of the Patriarchal 

 Religion : II., Stonehenge (151 — 156) : III., The First Colonists of Egypt : 

 I \\, Abraham's Descent, and connection with Canaan and Egypt : IV . 

 The Ilycsi or Titans: V., The Phoenicians : VI., Origin and Nature of 

 Druidism: — The Druids were a Phoenician colony who came to Britain 

 in the time of Abraham, and brought the patriarchal religion with them. 



1860. The Puts. Wilts May., VI., 2lM — 244 ; with one plate. 



All the early circular stone structures of Britain are " monuments of the 

 very earliest ages, and existing proofs of tho one universal religion which 

 prevails 1 far many centuries after the Deluge." 



Rowlands, Rev. Hen. [1656 -1723]: Vicar of Lanidan. 

 172.".. Mona Am imi a Kestaukata ; 4t<>.. viii., 383; index, 4 ; 

 illustrated; Dublin. 



