Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids

The stones of the cell are made to diminish very much, towards the top, most apparently with a design, to take off from their weight, and render them what we call top-heavy, in...

Mr. _Thomas Hayward_, late owner of _Stonehenge_, dug about it, as he acquainted Lord _Winchelsea_ and myself. He found heads of oxen and other beasts bones, and nothing else. I...

Somewhat more than 8 feet inward, from the inside of this exterior circle, is another circle of much lesser stones. In the measure of the Druids ’tis five cubits. This circle wa...

I have taken notice of another remarkable particular, as to the name of _Stonehenge_; which I apprehend to be of highest antiquity: that it was called the _Ambres_, or _Ambrose_...

In 1722, my late Lord _Pembroke_, Earl _Thomas_, who was pleas’d to favour my inquiries at this place, open’d a barrow, in order to find the position of the body observ’d in the...

To accept of this attempt to illustrate one of the noblest antiquities now left upon earth. I am confident your Grace will not dislike it, either because it is a religious antiq...

Tho’ _Stonehenge_ be the proudest singularity of this sort, in the world, as far as we know: yet there are so many others, manifestly form’d upon the same, or kindred design, by...

Mr. _Webb_ says, p. 55. that the whole work of _Stonehenge_ being of a circular form, is 110 foot in diameter. But to be precise, ’tis 108 and somewhat more, and his own scale i...

Here are very many barrows upon this side of the hill, all looking toward the sacred work. Hence we survey _Ambresbury_, _Vespasian_’s camp, and _Stonehenge_, the _cursus_, and...

Those learned commentators upon _Curtius_ abovementioned agree, there was a stone along with the statue of _Ammon_, carried about in the golden ship; and perhaps, hence the anti...

In my Enquiries into these works of the antient _Druids_ in our island, I observed a greater exactness in placing them, with regard to the quarters of the heavens, than one woul...

They represent two great, rough stones, call’d _petræ ambrosiæ_, with an altar before them, and an olive tree; _Hercules_ the hero of _Tyre_, the famous Navigator of antiquity,...

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