[Footnote 143: 'Mon. Hist. Brit.' p. 121.] [Footnote 144: This woodcut is copied literally from one by Mr. Lewis published in the 'Norwich Volume of the International Prehistoric Congress,' and the figures and facts I am about to quote are mostly taken from the paper that accompanied it. The inferences, however, are widely different.] [Footnote 145: 'Norwich Volume of the International Prehistoric Congress,' p. 37.] [Footnote 146: Asser, in 'Mon. Hist. Brit.' p. 476.] [Footnote 147: Stukeley, 'Avebury,' p. 12; Borlase, p. 210.] [Footnote 148: Camden, 'Britannia,' i. p. 285. See also Charleton's 'Stonehenge restored to the Danes,' p. 36.] [Footnote 149: On this stone Sir Gardiner Wilkinson traced one of those circles of concentric rings which are so common on stones in the north of England. I did not see it myself, but assuming it to be true--which I have no doubt it is--it will not help us much till we know when and by whom these circles were engraved.] [Footnote 150: 'Brit.' p. 1021.] [Footnote 151: Pennant in his text calls the diameter 88 yards, but the scale attached to his plan makes it 110 yards nearly.] [Footnote 152: 'Tour in Scotland, 1772,' pl. xxxvii. p. 276.] [Footnote 153: Near Lochmaben, in Annandale, a circle exists, or existed, called Wood Castle, which, in so far as the plan and dimensions are concerned, is identical with this. It is figured in General Roy's 'Military Antiquities of the Romans,' pl. viii. I would not hesitate in quoting it as a monument of this class, but for the view which I distrust excessively, but which makes it look like a fortification. As I have no means of verifying the facts, I can only draw attention to them.] [Footnote 154: 'Iter Boreale,' p. 42.] [Footnote 155: 'Brit.,' Gough edit. iii. p. 401.] [Footnote 156: 'Archæological Journal,' xviii. p. 29.] [Footnote 157: _Ibid._, xviii. p. 37.] [Footnote 158: I am not aware that any account of these diggings has been published. The facts I ascertained on the spot.] [Footnote 159: Here, again, I quote from the copy in the 'Mon. Hist. Brit.' p. 47 _et seq._, to which it will not be necessary to refer every time the name is mentioned.] [Footnote 160: Stuart Glennie, 'King Arthur.' 1867. L. W. Skene. 'Ancient Books of Wales,' i. 52 _et seq._] [Footnote 161: 'Mon. Hist. Brit.' p. 73.] [Footnote 162: General Roy's 'Mil. Ant. of the Romans,' pl. viii.] [Footnote 163: Bateman, 'Ten Years' Diggings,' p. 87.] [Footnote 164: I have not seen this circle myself, though I made a long journey on purpose. It is said to consist of eighty-eight stones, and one larger than the rest, standing outside the circle, at a distance of about five yards, or exactly as Long Meg stands with reference to her daughters.]