Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and UsesFergusson, James
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Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses
Fergusson, James
Megalithic monuments
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 80: 'Bell. Gall.' vi. 17.]
[Footnote 81: 'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' ii. p. xli.]
[Footnote 82: Thurnam, 'Crania Britannica;' London, 1856 to 1865.]
[Footnote 83: 'Codex diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici,' v. p. 238, No.
1120.]
[Footnote 84: Stukeley, 'Stonehenge and Abury,' p. 27.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 86: 'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. i. introd. p.
xx.]
[Footnote 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?]
[Footnote 88: 'Ancient Wiltshire,' ii. p. 63.]
[Footnote 89: Camden, 'Britannia,' 127.]
[Footnote 90: 'Archæologia,' xxviii. p. 399 _et seq._]
[Footnote 91: 'Journal Wiltshire Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Society,'
vii. p. 1861.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 93: Douglas, 'Nenia Brit.' p. 161. See also Salisbury
volume of the Archæological Institute, p. 74.]
[Footnote 94: 'Journal Royal Asiatic Soc.' xiii. p. 164; and Major
Skinner's plan of Anurajapura.]
[Footnote 95: Wilson, 'Ariana Antiqua,' p. 41; and Masson's
'Memoir,' _passim_.]
[Footnote 96: Sir R. C. Hoare, 'Ancient Wiltshire,' i. pl. ii. fig.
8.]
[Footnote 97: Ibid. i. p. 191.]
[Footnote 98: 'Archæologia,' xxx. p. 300 _et seq._]
[Footnote 99: 'Arch. Journ.,' xxiv. pp. 92 and 319.]
[Footnote 100: Ibid. p. 100.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 102: 'Ancient Wiltshire,' p. 7.]
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