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



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Smith, Rev. A. C. 1862. Silbury. Wilts Mag., VII., 145— 

 191 ; illustrated. 



It was probably a burial-mound. The Eoman road bends southward to 

 avoid it ; so that it is pre-Eoman. 



1866. Vestiges of Earliest Inhabitants of Wilts. 



Wilts Mag., IX., 97—136 ; with four plates. 

 A general account of the subject. Numerous references are given. 



1867. Moving Colossal Stones. Wilts Mag., X., 52—60. 



Describes the methods used at Nineveh, and in Egypt, etc. " We may, I 

 think, reasonably conjecture, that those who erected Avebury and Stone- 

 henge could have drawn the stones which compose them, by the united 

 strength of numbers, without any very great mechanical knowledge." 

 Gives 154 lbs. as the weight of one cubic foot of the sarsen stones. The 

 largest stone at Avebury weighs about 62 tons. 



1867. Excavations at Avebury. Wilts Mag., x., 209 — 216. 



Trenches were dug within the circle and across the earth-circle itself at 

 fourteen points. The sites of several stones (now destroyed) were found ; 

 but no human bones (thus disproving Fergusson's theory) ; and only a few 

 fragments of British pottery were found. 



1868. The Nile and its Banks; two vols., 8vo., xxiv., 



282 ; and xiv., 295 ; illustrated : London. 



Describes the methods employed by the Egyptians for moving stone 

 obelisks, etc. (I., 101). Stonehenge (I., 225) and Avebury consist of sarsens 

 of which the heaviest is no more than 62 tons, while the colossal granite 

 figure of Kameses at Thebes weighs 888 tons. 



1878. Supposed Stone-Circle near Avebury. Wilts 



Mag., XVII., 253—254. 



Situated one mile south of Silbury : diameter about 90 yards. 



1881. British Stone and Earthworks on the Marlborough 



Downs. Wilts Mag., XIX., 45—67. 



"The richest district in British remains of any in our country " : while 

 Abury is " the largest and noblest temple of the early Britons to be found 

 in this island." 



1883. Letter re Stonehenge. Devizes Gazette [March]. 



States that the promoters of the Bristol & London & South-Western Junction 

 Eailway had agreed to a deviation which would keep the proposed line 

 " a mile away to the north of Stonehenge." 



