Footnotes[77]These particulars are taken from a careful survey made by Sir R. Colt Hoare, in 1812, and published in his 'Ancient Wilts,' vol. ii. pl. xiii. p. 70et seq.[78]'Stonehenge and Avebury,' p. 34.[79]Haca, or Haco, according to Kemble, was some mythical person with a very Danish name which is found in Hampshire and Berkshire, as well as here. Pen seems to mean merely enclosure, as it does now in English. See Kemble, in 'Journal Arch. Inst.' xiv. p. 134.[80]'Bell. Gall.' vi. 17.[81]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' ii. p. xli.[82]Thurnam, 'Crania Britannica;' London, 1856 to 1865.[83]'Codex diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici,' v. p. 238, No. 1120.[84]Stukeley, 'Stonehenge and Abury,' p. 27.[85]The particulars are taken from a pamphlet entitled 'Excavations at Avebury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' printed at Devizes, but, so far as I know, not yet published.[86]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. i. introd. p. xx.[87]A plan of it was published about Stukeley's time by a Mr. Twining, in a pamphlet, which was written to prove that this group of monuments was erected by Agricola, to represent a map of England! A plan accompanies it, which shows all the avenues as straight; but what weight can possibly be attached to any evidence coming from a man with such a theory as this?[88]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 63.[89]Camden, 'Britannia,' 127.[90]'Archæologia,' xxviii. p. 399et seq.[91]'Journal Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' vii. p. 1861.[92]Curiously enough these dimensions are almost identical with those of the mound erected by the Belgic-Dutch, to commemorate the part they did not take in the battle of Waterloo. Its dimensions are 130 feet high, 544 feet in diameter, and 1632 feet in circumference. The angle of the slope of the sides is lower, being 27½ degrees, owing to the smaller diameter of the flat top, which is only 40 feet.[93]Douglas, 'Nenia Brit.' p. 161. See also Salisbury volume of the Archæological Institute, p. 74.[94]'Journal Royal Asiatic Soc.' xiii. p. 164; and Major Skinner's plan of Anurajapura.[95]Wilson, 'Ariana Antiqua,' p. 41; and Masson's 'Memoir,'passim.[96]Sir R. C. Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. pl. ii. fig. 8.[97]Ibid. i. p. 191.[98]'Archæologia,' xxx. p. 300et seq.[99]'Arch. Journ.,' xxiv. pp. 92 and 319.[100]Ibid. p. 100.[101]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. 5. Unfortunately there is no scale attached to the plan of the Marden Circle, and no dimensions quoted in the text.[102]'Ancient Wiltshire,' p. 7.[103]I adopt Dr. Guest's dates for this part of the subject, not only because I think them most probable, but because I think, from his knowledge and the special attention he has bestowed on the subject, he is most likely to be right. SeeSalisburyVolume Arch. Journal, p. 62.[104]'Athenæum Journal,' Dec. 13, 1865.[105]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.[106]'Salisbury Vol.' p. 63.[107]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.[108]Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 22.[109]Saxon Chronicle, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 304.[110]'Jeffrey of Monmouth,' ix. p. 4.[111]The history of the plan given onpage 92, and from which all the dimensions in the text are quoted, is this. When I was staying with my friend, Mr. Hawkshaw, the eminent engineer, at Eversley, I was complaining of the incorrectness of all the published plans, when he said, "I have a man in my office whose plans are the very essence of minute accuracy. I will send him down to make one for you." He did so, and his plan—to a scale of 10 feet to 1 inch, is before me. I afterwards took this plan to Stonehenge, and identified the position and character of every stone marked upon it.[112]I am almost afraid to allude to it even in a note, lest some one should accuse me of founding any theory upon it, like Piazzi Smyth's British inches in the Pyramids, but it is a curious coincidence that nearly all the British circles are set out in two dimensions. The smaller class are 100 feet, the larger are 100 metres in diameter. They are all more than 100 yards. The latter measure is at all events certainly accidental, so far as we at present know, but as a nomenclature and "memoria technica," the employment of the terms may be useful, provided it is clearly understood that no theory is based upon it.[113]'Historia,' in 'Mon. Brit.' 694.[114]'Tree and Serpent Worship,' by the author, plates iii.et seq.[115]Twenty Chinese coolies would carry any one of them up in a week.[116]'Serie Centrale' by Comte Melchior de Vogüé. Though this work was commenced some ten years ago, and subscriptions obtained, it is still incomplete. No text has yet been published, and no maps, which makes the identification of the places singularly difficult.[117]Videante, footnote,p. 15.[118]'Topography of Jerusalem,' by the Author, p. 58.[119]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 178, plan vi.[120]Sir John Lubbock, 'Prehistoric Times,' p. 116.[121]Sir R. Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 145.[122]The name is written as Sidbury in the Ordnance maps.[123]'Archæologia,' vii. pp. 132-134.[124]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 154.[125]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 150.[126]Nennius, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 69.[127]Jeffrey, viii. c. 9.[128]"Fuit antiquis temporibus in Hiberniâ lapidum congeries admiranda, quæ et Chorea gigantum dicta fuit, quia gigantes eam ab ultimis Africæ partibus in Hiberniam attulerunt et in Kildarienes planicie non procul a Castro Nasensi, tam ingenii quam virium opere mirabiliter erexerunt. Unde et ibidem lapides quidam aliis simillimi similique modo erecti usque in hodiernum conspiciuntur. Mirum qualiter tanti lapides tot etiam et tam magni unquam in unum locum vel congesti fuerint vel erecti: quantoque artificiis lapidibus tam magnis et altis alii superpositi sint non minores; qui sic in pendulo et tanquam in inani suspendi videntur ut potius artificum studio quam suppositorum podio inniti videantur. Juxta Britannicam historiam lapides istos rex Britonum Aurelius Ambrosius divina Merlini diligentia de Hiberniâ in Britanniam advehi procuravit; et ut tanti facinoris egregium aliquod memoriale relinqueret eodem ordine et arte qua prius in loco constituit ubi occultis Saxonum cultris Britanniæ flos occidit et sub pacis obtentu nequitiæ telis male tecta regni juventus occubuit."—Topogr.Hiberniæ, vol. ii. ch. xviii.If we could trust Ware, they still existed in the beginning of the last century. He speaks of "Saxa illæ in gentia et rudia quæ in planitie non longe a Naasa in agro Kildariensi et alibi visuntur."—Hist. Hib., xxiv. 103.[129]'Hist. Brit.' viii. ch. xvi.[130]'Hist. Brit.' xi. ch. iv.[131]This is the principal argument of Herbert's 'Cyclops Christianus.'[132]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 158. See also woodcutNo. 26, p. 102. The dotted part of the smaller cursus is a restoration of my own.[133]Vide ante,p. 107.
Footnotes[77]These particulars are taken from a careful survey made by Sir R. Colt Hoare, in 1812, and published in his 'Ancient Wilts,' vol. ii. pl. xiii. p. 70et seq.[78]'Stonehenge and Avebury,' p. 34.[79]Haca, or Haco, according to Kemble, was some mythical person with a very Danish name which is found in Hampshire and Berkshire, as well as here. Pen seems to mean merely enclosure, as it does now in English. See Kemble, in 'Journal Arch. Inst.' xiv. p. 134.[80]'Bell. Gall.' vi. 17.[81]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' ii. p. xli.[82]Thurnam, 'Crania Britannica;' London, 1856 to 1865.[83]'Codex diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici,' v. p. 238, No. 1120.[84]Stukeley, 'Stonehenge and Abury,' p. 27.[85]The particulars are taken from a pamphlet entitled 'Excavations at Avebury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' printed at Devizes, but, so far as I know, not yet published.[86]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. i. introd. p. xx.[87]A plan of it was published about Stukeley's time by a Mr. Twining, in a pamphlet, which was written to prove that this group of monuments was erected by Agricola, to represent a map of England! A plan accompanies it, which shows all the avenues as straight; but what weight can possibly be attached to any evidence coming from a man with such a theory as this?[88]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 63.[89]Camden, 'Britannia,' 127.[90]'Archæologia,' xxviii. p. 399et seq.[91]'Journal Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' vii. p. 1861.[92]Curiously enough these dimensions are almost identical with those of the mound erected by the Belgic-Dutch, to commemorate the part they did not take in the battle of Waterloo. Its dimensions are 130 feet high, 544 feet in diameter, and 1632 feet in circumference. The angle of the slope of the sides is lower, being 27½ degrees, owing to the smaller diameter of the flat top, which is only 40 feet.[93]Douglas, 'Nenia Brit.' p. 161. See also Salisbury volume of the Archæological Institute, p. 74.[94]'Journal Royal Asiatic Soc.' xiii. p. 164; and Major Skinner's plan of Anurajapura.[95]Wilson, 'Ariana Antiqua,' p. 41; and Masson's 'Memoir,'passim.[96]Sir R. C. Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. pl. ii. fig. 8.[97]Ibid. i. p. 191.[98]'Archæologia,' xxx. p. 300et seq.[99]'Arch. Journ.,' xxiv. pp. 92 and 319.[100]Ibid. p. 100.[101]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. 5. Unfortunately there is no scale attached to the plan of the Marden Circle, and no dimensions quoted in the text.[102]'Ancient Wiltshire,' p. 7.[103]I adopt Dr. Guest's dates for this part of the subject, not only because I think them most probable, but because I think, from his knowledge and the special attention he has bestowed on the subject, he is most likely to be right. SeeSalisburyVolume Arch. Journal, p. 62.[104]'Athenæum Journal,' Dec. 13, 1865.[105]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.[106]'Salisbury Vol.' p. 63.[107]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.[108]Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 22.[109]Saxon Chronicle, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 304.[110]'Jeffrey of Monmouth,' ix. p. 4.[111]The history of the plan given onpage 92, and from which all the dimensions in the text are quoted, is this. When I was staying with my friend, Mr. Hawkshaw, the eminent engineer, at Eversley, I was complaining of the incorrectness of all the published plans, when he said, "I have a man in my office whose plans are the very essence of minute accuracy. I will send him down to make one for you." He did so, and his plan—to a scale of 10 feet to 1 inch, is before me. I afterwards took this plan to Stonehenge, and identified the position and character of every stone marked upon it.[112]I am almost afraid to allude to it even in a note, lest some one should accuse me of founding any theory upon it, like Piazzi Smyth's British inches in the Pyramids, but it is a curious coincidence that nearly all the British circles are set out in two dimensions. The smaller class are 100 feet, the larger are 100 metres in diameter. They are all more than 100 yards. The latter measure is at all events certainly accidental, so far as we at present know, but as a nomenclature and "memoria technica," the employment of the terms may be useful, provided it is clearly understood that no theory is based upon it.[113]'Historia,' in 'Mon. Brit.' 694.[114]'Tree and Serpent Worship,' by the author, plates iii.et seq.[115]Twenty Chinese coolies would carry any one of them up in a week.[116]'Serie Centrale' by Comte Melchior de Vogüé. Though this work was commenced some ten years ago, and subscriptions obtained, it is still incomplete. No text has yet been published, and no maps, which makes the identification of the places singularly difficult.[117]Videante, footnote,p. 15.[118]'Topography of Jerusalem,' by the Author, p. 58.[119]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 178, plan vi.[120]Sir John Lubbock, 'Prehistoric Times,' p. 116.[121]Sir R. Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 145.[122]The name is written as Sidbury in the Ordnance maps.[123]'Archæologia,' vii. pp. 132-134.[124]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 154.[125]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 150.[126]Nennius, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 69.[127]Jeffrey, viii. c. 9.[128]"Fuit antiquis temporibus in Hiberniâ lapidum congeries admiranda, quæ et Chorea gigantum dicta fuit, quia gigantes eam ab ultimis Africæ partibus in Hiberniam attulerunt et in Kildarienes planicie non procul a Castro Nasensi, tam ingenii quam virium opere mirabiliter erexerunt. Unde et ibidem lapides quidam aliis simillimi similique modo erecti usque in hodiernum conspiciuntur. Mirum qualiter tanti lapides tot etiam et tam magni unquam in unum locum vel congesti fuerint vel erecti: quantoque artificiis lapidibus tam magnis et altis alii superpositi sint non minores; qui sic in pendulo et tanquam in inani suspendi videntur ut potius artificum studio quam suppositorum podio inniti videantur. Juxta Britannicam historiam lapides istos rex Britonum Aurelius Ambrosius divina Merlini diligentia de Hiberniâ in Britanniam advehi procuravit; et ut tanti facinoris egregium aliquod memoriale relinqueret eodem ordine et arte qua prius in loco constituit ubi occultis Saxonum cultris Britanniæ flos occidit et sub pacis obtentu nequitiæ telis male tecta regni juventus occubuit."—Topogr.Hiberniæ, vol. ii. ch. xviii.If we could trust Ware, they still existed in the beginning of the last century. He speaks of "Saxa illæ in gentia et rudia quæ in planitie non longe a Naasa in agro Kildariensi et alibi visuntur."—Hist. Hib., xxiv. 103.[129]'Hist. Brit.' viii. ch. xvi.[130]'Hist. Brit.' xi. ch. iv.[131]This is the principal argument of Herbert's 'Cyclops Christianus.'[132]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 158. See also woodcutNo. 26, p. 102. The dotted part of the smaller cursus is a restoration of my own.[133]Vide ante,p. 107.
Footnotes
[77]These particulars are taken from a careful survey made by Sir R. Colt Hoare, in 1812, and published in his 'Ancient Wilts,' vol. ii. pl. xiii. p. 70et seq.
[77]These particulars are taken from a careful survey made by Sir R. Colt Hoare, in 1812, and published in his 'Ancient Wilts,' vol. ii. pl. xiii. p. 70et seq.
[78]'Stonehenge and Avebury,' p. 34.
[78]'Stonehenge and Avebury,' p. 34.
[79]Haca, or Haco, according to Kemble, was some mythical person with a very Danish name which is found in Hampshire and Berkshire, as well as here. Pen seems to mean merely enclosure, as it does now in English. See Kemble, in 'Journal Arch. Inst.' xiv. p. 134.
[79]Haca, or Haco, according to Kemble, was some mythical person with a very Danish name which is found in Hampshire and Berkshire, as well as here. Pen seems to mean merely enclosure, as it does now in English. See Kemble, in 'Journal Arch. Inst.' xiv. p. 134.
[80]'Bell. Gall.' vi. 17.
[80]'Bell. Gall.' vi. 17.
[81]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' ii. p. xli.
[81]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' ii. p. xli.
[82]Thurnam, 'Crania Britannica;' London, 1856 to 1865.
[82]Thurnam, 'Crania Britannica;' London, 1856 to 1865.
[83]'Codex diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici,' v. p. 238, No. 1120.
[83]'Codex diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici,' v. p. 238, No. 1120.
[84]Stukeley, 'Stonehenge and Abury,' p. 27.
[84]Stukeley, 'Stonehenge and Abury,' p. 27.
[85]The particulars are taken from a pamphlet entitled 'Excavations at Avebury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' printed at Devizes, but, so far as I know, not yet published.
[85]The particulars are taken from a pamphlet entitled 'Excavations at Avebury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' printed at Devizes, but, so far as I know, not yet published.
[86]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. i. introd. p. xx.
[86]'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. i. introd. p. xx.
[87]A plan of it was published about Stukeley's time by a Mr. Twining, in a pamphlet, which was written to prove that this group of monuments was erected by Agricola, to represent a map of England! A plan accompanies it, which shows all the avenues as straight; but what weight can possibly be attached to any evidence coming from a man with such a theory as this?
[87]A plan of it was published about Stukeley's time by a Mr. Twining, in a pamphlet, which was written to prove that this group of monuments was erected by Agricola, to represent a map of England! A plan accompanies it, which shows all the avenues as straight; but what weight can possibly be attached to any evidence coming from a man with such a theory as this?
[88]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 63.
[88]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 63.
[89]Camden, 'Britannia,' 127.
[89]Camden, 'Britannia,' 127.
[90]'Archæologia,' xxviii. p. 399et seq.
[90]'Archæologia,' xxviii. p. 399et seq.
[91]'Journal Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' vii. p. 1861.
[91]'Journal Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,' vii. p. 1861.
[92]Curiously enough these dimensions are almost identical with those of the mound erected by the Belgic-Dutch, to commemorate the part they did not take in the battle of Waterloo. Its dimensions are 130 feet high, 544 feet in diameter, and 1632 feet in circumference. The angle of the slope of the sides is lower, being 27½ degrees, owing to the smaller diameter of the flat top, which is only 40 feet.
[92]Curiously enough these dimensions are almost identical with those of the mound erected by the Belgic-Dutch, to commemorate the part they did not take in the battle of Waterloo. Its dimensions are 130 feet high, 544 feet in diameter, and 1632 feet in circumference. The angle of the slope of the sides is lower, being 27½ degrees, owing to the smaller diameter of the flat top, which is only 40 feet.
[93]Douglas, 'Nenia Brit.' p. 161. See also Salisbury volume of the Archæological Institute, p. 74.
[93]Douglas, 'Nenia Brit.' p. 161. See also Salisbury volume of the Archæological Institute, p. 74.
[94]'Journal Royal Asiatic Soc.' xiii. p. 164; and Major Skinner's plan of Anurajapura.
[94]'Journal Royal Asiatic Soc.' xiii. p. 164; and Major Skinner's plan of Anurajapura.
[95]Wilson, 'Ariana Antiqua,' p. 41; and Masson's 'Memoir,'passim.
[95]Wilson, 'Ariana Antiqua,' p. 41; and Masson's 'Memoir,'passim.
[96]Sir R. C. Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. pl. ii. fig. 8.
[96]Sir R. C. Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. pl. ii. fig. 8.
[97]Ibid. i. p. 191.
[97]Ibid. i. p. 191.
[98]'Archæologia,' xxx. p. 300et seq.
[98]'Archæologia,' xxx. p. 300et seq.
[99]'Arch. Journ.,' xxiv. pp. 92 and 319.
[99]'Arch. Journ.,' xxiv. pp. 92 and 319.
[100]Ibid. p. 100.
[100]Ibid. p. 100.
[101]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. 5. Unfortunately there is no scale attached to the plan of the Marden Circle, and no dimensions quoted in the text.
[101]'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. 5. Unfortunately there is no scale attached to the plan of the Marden Circle, and no dimensions quoted in the text.
[102]'Ancient Wiltshire,' p. 7.
[102]'Ancient Wiltshire,' p. 7.
[103]I adopt Dr. Guest's dates for this part of the subject, not only because I think them most probable, but because I think, from his knowledge and the special attention he has bestowed on the subject, he is most likely to be right. SeeSalisburyVolume Arch. Journal, p. 62.
[103]I adopt Dr. Guest's dates for this part of the subject, not only because I think them most probable, but because I think, from his knowledge and the special attention he has bestowed on the subject, he is most likely to be right. SeeSalisburyVolume Arch. Journal, p. 62.
[104]'Athenæum Journal,' Dec. 13, 1865.
[104]'Athenæum Journal,' Dec. 13, 1865.
[105]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.
[105]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.
[106]'Salisbury Vol.' p. 63.
[106]'Salisbury Vol.' p. 63.
[107]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.
[107]'Mon. Brit.' p. 15.
[108]Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 22.
[108]Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 22.
[109]Saxon Chronicle, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 304.
[109]Saxon Chronicle, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 304.
[110]'Jeffrey of Monmouth,' ix. p. 4.
[110]'Jeffrey of Monmouth,' ix. p. 4.
[111]The history of the plan given onpage 92, and from which all the dimensions in the text are quoted, is this. When I was staying with my friend, Mr. Hawkshaw, the eminent engineer, at Eversley, I was complaining of the incorrectness of all the published plans, when he said, "I have a man in my office whose plans are the very essence of minute accuracy. I will send him down to make one for you." He did so, and his plan—to a scale of 10 feet to 1 inch, is before me. I afterwards took this plan to Stonehenge, and identified the position and character of every stone marked upon it.
[111]The history of the plan given onpage 92, and from which all the dimensions in the text are quoted, is this. When I was staying with my friend, Mr. Hawkshaw, the eminent engineer, at Eversley, I was complaining of the incorrectness of all the published plans, when he said, "I have a man in my office whose plans are the very essence of minute accuracy. I will send him down to make one for you." He did so, and his plan—to a scale of 10 feet to 1 inch, is before me. I afterwards took this plan to Stonehenge, and identified the position and character of every stone marked upon it.
[112]I am almost afraid to allude to it even in a note, lest some one should accuse me of founding any theory upon it, like Piazzi Smyth's British inches in the Pyramids, but it is a curious coincidence that nearly all the British circles are set out in two dimensions. The smaller class are 100 feet, the larger are 100 metres in diameter. They are all more than 100 yards. The latter measure is at all events certainly accidental, so far as we at present know, but as a nomenclature and "memoria technica," the employment of the terms may be useful, provided it is clearly understood that no theory is based upon it.
[112]I am almost afraid to allude to it even in a note, lest some one should accuse me of founding any theory upon it, like Piazzi Smyth's British inches in the Pyramids, but it is a curious coincidence that nearly all the British circles are set out in two dimensions. The smaller class are 100 feet, the larger are 100 metres in diameter. They are all more than 100 yards. The latter measure is at all events certainly accidental, so far as we at present know, but as a nomenclature and "memoria technica," the employment of the terms may be useful, provided it is clearly understood that no theory is based upon it.
[113]'Historia,' in 'Mon. Brit.' 694.
[113]'Historia,' in 'Mon. Brit.' 694.
[114]'Tree and Serpent Worship,' by the author, plates iii.et seq.
[114]'Tree and Serpent Worship,' by the author, plates iii.et seq.
[115]Twenty Chinese coolies would carry any one of them up in a week.
[115]Twenty Chinese coolies would carry any one of them up in a week.
[116]'Serie Centrale' by Comte Melchior de Vogüé. Though this work was commenced some ten years ago, and subscriptions obtained, it is still incomplete. No text has yet been published, and no maps, which makes the identification of the places singularly difficult.
[116]'Serie Centrale' by Comte Melchior de Vogüé. Though this work was commenced some ten years ago, and subscriptions obtained, it is still incomplete. No text has yet been published, and no maps, which makes the identification of the places singularly difficult.
[117]Videante, footnote,p. 15.
[117]Videante, footnote,p. 15.
[118]'Topography of Jerusalem,' by the Author, p. 58.
[118]'Topography of Jerusalem,' by the Author, p. 58.
[119]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 178, plan vi.
[119]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 178, plan vi.
[120]Sir John Lubbock, 'Prehistoric Times,' p. 116.
[120]Sir John Lubbock, 'Prehistoric Times,' p. 116.
[121]Sir R. Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 145.
[121]Sir R. Colt Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 145.
[122]The name is written as Sidbury in the Ordnance maps.
[122]The name is written as Sidbury in the Ordnance maps.
[123]'Archæologia,' vii. pp. 132-134.
[123]'Archæologia,' vii. pp. 132-134.
[124]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 154.
[124]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 154.
[125]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 150.
[125]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 150.
[126]Nennius, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 69.
[126]Nennius, in 'Mon. Brit.' p. 69.
[127]Jeffrey, viii. c. 9.
[127]Jeffrey, viii. c. 9.
[128]"Fuit antiquis temporibus in Hiberniâ lapidum congeries admiranda, quæ et Chorea gigantum dicta fuit, quia gigantes eam ab ultimis Africæ partibus in Hiberniam attulerunt et in Kildarienes planicie non procul a Castro Nasensi, tam ingenii quam virium opere mirabiliter erexerunt. Unde et ibidem lapides quidam aliis simillimi similique modo erecti usque in hodiernum conspiciuntur. Mirum qualiter tanti lapides tot etiam et tam magni unquam in unum locum vel congesti fuerint vel erecti: quantoque artificiis lapidibus tam magnis et altis alii superpositi sint non minores; qui sic in pendulo et tanquam in inani suspendi videntur ut potius artificum studio quam suppositorum podio inniti videantur. Juxta Britannicam historiam lapides istos rex Britonum Aurelius Ambrosius divina Merlini diligentia de Hiberniâ in Britanniam advehi procuravit; et ut tanti facinoris egregium aliquod memoriale relinqueret eodem ordine et arte qua prius in loco constituit ubi occultis Saxonum cultris Britanniæ flos occidit et sub pacis obtentu nequitiæ telis male tecta regni juventus occubuit."—Topogr.Hiberniæ, vol. ii. ch. xviii.If we could trust Ware, they still existed in the beginning of the last century. He speaks of "Saxa illæ in gentia et rudia quæ in planitie non longe a Naasa in agro Kildariensi et alibi visuntur."—Hist. Hib., xxiv. 103.
[128]"Fuit antiquis temporibus in Hiberniâ lapidum congeries admiranda, quæ et Chorea gigantum dicta fuit, quia gigantes eam ab ultimis Africæ partibus in Hiberniam attulerunt et in Kildarienes planicie non procul a Castro Nasensi, tam ingenii quam virium opere mirabiliter erexerunt. Unde et ibidem lapides quidam aliis simillimi similique modo erecti usque in hodiernum conspiciuntur. Mirum qualiter tanti lapides tot etiam et tam magni unquam in unum locum vel congesti fuerint vel erecti: quantoque artificiis lapidibus tam magnis et altis alii superpositi sint non minores; qui sic in pendulo et tanquam in inani suspendi videntur ut potius artificum studio quam suppositorum podio inniti videantur. Juxta Britannicam historiam lapides istos rex Britonum Aurelius Ambrosius divina Merlini diligentia de Hiberniâ in Britanniam advehi procuravit; et ut tanti facinoris egregium aliquod memoriale relinqueret eodem ordine et arte qua prius in loco constituit ubi occultis Saxonum cultris Britanniæ flos occidit et sub pacis obtentu nequitiæ telis male tecta regni juventus occubuit."—Topogr.Hiberniæ, vol. ii. ch. xviii.
If we could trust Ware, they still existed in the beginning of the last century. He speaks of "Saxa illæ in gentia et rudia quæ in planitie non longe a Naasa in agro Kildariensi et alibi visuntur."—Hist. Hib., xxiv. 103.
[129]'Hist. Brit.' viii. ch. xvi.
[129]'Hist. Brit.' viii. ch. xvi.
[130]'Hist. Brit.' xi. ch. iv.
[130]'Hist. Brit.' xi. ch. iv.
[131]This is the principal argument of Herbert's 'Cyclops Christianus.'
[131]This is the principal argument of Herbert's 'Cyclops Christianus.'
[132]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 158. See also woodcutNo. 26, p. 102. The dotted part of the smaller cursus is a restoration of my own.
[132]'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. p. 158. See also woodcutNo. 26, p. 102. The dotted part of the smaller cursus is a restoration of my own.
[133]Vide ante,p. 107.
[133]Vide ante,p. 107.