Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his workStukeley, William
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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his work
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
the ground, and rise into the air with a surprising push: therefore
the Britons erected this laborious work very conveniently, beyond that
uncultivated frontier, and in a country where they might range about
in their chariots at pleasure. I guess, by the crebrity and number of
the stones remaining, there must have been two hundred on a side: near
them in several places are remains of circles to be seen, of stones set
on end; but there are no quantity of barrows about the place, which I
wonder at. Though these stones are not of such a flat form as those at
Abury, nor so big as some there; yet they are very large, and as heavy
as any of those in the avenues there. The site of the place is pretty
much bounded eastward by the hill that way adjacent; but there is a
large prospect west ward, and the country descends that way to a great
distance. At a place called in the maps Stone-heaps, we saw a cairn or
barrow made of stones: all the tops of the fells, I am told, abound
with these crystallised stones.
[Illustration: 90·2ᵈ.
_The Devils arrows near Burrowbridg. 14 Sepᵗʳ. 1725._
_Stukeley Desig._ _Hulett Sculp._]
[Illustration: 89·2ᵈ. GER CHAW
_This about 3 yards long, 2 broad, having 2 supporters_
_ds about 40 yᵈˢ. in circumference._
_about 3 bow shoots from the upper_
_The Mount of_ New Grange _in the county of_ East Meath _not far
from_ Drogheda. _There are 4 other Mounts near this, 3 lesser & the
4ᵗʰ. as big as this._
_The Circle is also in the same field._]
[Illustration: 88·2ᵈ.
_near Roeschild in the way to Fredrickburgh._
_Prope vicum Hobish veteris Marchiæ._
_A Monument in Seland near the Highway to the Village of Birke._
_Stukeley delin._]
[Illustration: 87·2ᵈ.
_Near Na Hottre a Village in the County of Mayow_
_On a hill above the upper end of Loch Kreigness in Argileshire_
_At Klochlynach in Dynfarri near Benbwysken_
_Stukeley delin._ _Harris sculp._]
[Illustration: 86·2ᵈ. Celtic Monuments in Germany
_In Drent_
_near Helmstad_
_near Bulke in Halsatia_
Doctissimo Viro Joħi Keysler Amico plurimum æstimando Tabulam Jure
& Lubentissime _d. d. Wᵐ: Stukeley_
_Stukeley delin._ _Tom’s Sculp._]
[Illustration: 85·2ᵈ. _The 6 Barrows near Stevenage 10 July 1724._
_Stukeley del._ _I. Vᵈᵉʳ. Gucht Sculp._]
[Illustration: 84·2ᵈ. +Celtic+ Temples.
_These Circles are within a stones cast of each other, about half a
mile off King in a field on the right side of the road, as you go
to Ballinrope in the County of Mayow._
_The 9 maids in the Parish of Sᵗ. Colomb._]
PENRITH.
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