The most notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the late King

I have given you a full relation what concerning _Stoneheng_ hath been delivered by Writers, in respect of us though ancient, yet in regard of the great antiquity of this _Work_...

Moreover, whether or no this opinion maybe consistent with any of those qualities, the Ancients endowed this Goddesse with, let us examine further the Nature of the Deity it sel...

Howsoever, considering what magnificence the _Romans_ in prosperous times anciently used in all works, both publick, and private: their knowledge and experience in all _Arts_ an...

That, amongst the _Romans_ and _Britans_ both, _A. Ambrosius_ governing here, all Sciences were utterly perished, is evidently manifest. For, the _Goths_ had then invaded _Italy...

Neither must it seem strange, they used no other Temples then these, it not being their custom alone; for the _Excelsi_ or high places mentioned in the sacred Story, wherein the...

That the _Britans_, untill _Julius Agricolas_ time, had learned nothing (as _Anonymus_ takes speciall notice) but _to fight, and were no handicraftsmen_, whereby they might be c...

With this relation of the _Saxons_ treachery, _Mathew Westminster_ (in his _Flores historiarum_) seems to agree. And it wholly destroys the opinion commonly received, That the s...

This Discourse of _Stone-heng_ is moulded off, and cast into a rude Form, from some few indigested notes of the late judicious _Architect_, the _Vitruvius_ of his age _Inigo Jon...

The _Aspect_ of this _Temple_; by which we understand that first shew which _Temples_ make to those that draw near unto them, is _Dipteros Hypæthros_, which is double winged abo...

Thirdly, in regard of the _Form_ of _Stoneheng_, which is _circular_. This figure was proper to the _Temples_ of _Cœlus_ and _Tellus_, whom the Ancients called _Vesta_, as _Vale...