Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Peter Barozzi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: STONEHENGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST] ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS AND THEIR BUILDERS BY T. ERIC PEET FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD; LATELY CRAVEN FELLOW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND PELHAM STUDENT AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF ROME HARPER & BROTHERS LONDON AND NEW YORK 45 ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1912 _Published October, 1912_. PREFACE The aim of this volume is to enable those who are interested in Stonehenge and other great stone monuments of England to learn something of the similar buildings which exist in different parts of the world, of the men who constructed them, and of the great archaeological system of which they form a part. It is hoped that to the archaeologist it may be useful as a complete though brief sketch of our present knowledge of the megalithic monuments, and as a short treatment of the problems which arise in connection with them. To British readers it is unnecessary to give any justification for the comparatively full treatment accorded to the monuments of Great Britain and Ireland. Malta and Sardinia may perhaps seem to occupy more than their due share of space, but the usurpation is justified by the magnificence and the intrinsic interest of their megalithic buildings. Being of singularly complicated types and remarkably well preserved they naturally tell us much more of their builders than do the simpler monuments of other larger and now more important countries. In these two islands, moreover, research has in the last few years been extremely active, and it is felt that the accounts here given of them will contain some material new even to the archaeologist. In order to assist those readers who may wish to follow out the subject in greater detail a short bibliography has been added to the book.