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



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Simpson, Sir James Y. [1811—1870]; Physician. 



1867. Archaic Sculptumngs ; 8vo., x., 200; with thirty-six 

 plates ; Edinburgh. 



Weathering of the Stonehenge sarsens (p. 3) ; two of the stones at Stonehenge 

 are "holed" (p. 38) ; combats Nilsson's Phoenician theory of the builders 

 of Abury and Stonehenge (pp. 95, 110) ; insisting especially on the absence 

 of similar structures in Phoenicia and its colonies. 



1872. Archaeological Essays (edited by Dr. J. Stuart) ; 



two vols., 8vo., xxi., 274 ; and vi., 344 : Edinburgh. 

 Puts the stories about the Druids on a level with those about sea-serpents 

 and mermaids (I., 37) ; Stonehenge, see L, 243. 



Simpson, Sam. 1746. History of Wilts : 8vo. : London. 



Gives a resume of Stukeley's work (pp. 1064 — 1073). This " History of 

 Wilts " — with map — occupies pp. 1027—1080 of Simpson's book, " The 

 Agreeable Historian"; published in three vols., and including separate 

 accounts of all the counties. 



Sinnett, A. P, [b. 1840] : Journalist. 

 1892. Stonehenge. Times, 26 Sept., p. 3. 



The monument may be the work of some people who inhabited the lost 

 continent of Atlantis (!) 



1893. New Theory of Stonehenge. Black and White, 



V., 354—5 ; illustrated. 



Gives view of Stonehenge from the S.W. Repeats his "Atlantis" theory. 



Skeat, Rev. Prof W. W. [b. 1835] : Professor of Anglo-Saxon, 

 Cambridge. 



1888. Roman Remains in Wilts. Archmol. Revieio, I., 39 — 40. 



Gives list of forty-five localities, including " Roman horse-shoes, near 

 Silbury," [see Archceol. Journal, XL, 65, 296.] 



Skene, W. P. [1809 — 1892] : Scottish historian and Celtic scholar. 



1868. The Four Antient Books of Wales ; two vols., 8vo., 

 xiv., 600; and xiv., 496; with map and five facsimiles: Edinburgh. 

 The books are : — (1) Black Book of Caermarthen ; (2) Book of Aneurin ; 



(3) Book of Taliessin ; (4) Red Book of Hergest. These are attributed to 

 four bards: — Myrddin, Aneurin, Taliessin, and Llywarch Hen, who are 

 supposed to have lived in the sixth century. The author, in reference to 

 Stonehenge, etc., thinks that "it would probably be difficult to find a 

 stranger specimen of perverted ingenuity and misplaced learning than is 

 contained in the works of the Rev. E. Davies and the Hon. Alg. 

 Herbert." See Vol. I., p. 7 ; and Vol. II., p. 359. 



