Chapter D: E S C R I B’d (6)

Therefore at the time of the founding of _Stonehenge_, the variation was about the same quantity and place, as about A. D. 1620. in our preceding table. Supposing with Dr. _Halley_, the revolution of this variation be about 700 years, three intire revolutions thereof, bring us to about the year of the city of _Rome_ 280. which is about 460 years before our Saviour’s time: 420 years before _Cæsar_ invaded _Britain_. About 100 years before our Saviour’s birth, _Divitiacus_ made the _Wansdike_ north of _Stonehenge_, and drove the possessors of this fine country of the _Wiltshire_ downs, northwards. So that the Druids enjoyed their magnificent work of _Stonehenge_, but about 360 years. And the very great number of barrows about it, requires, that we should not much shorten the time. Sir _Isaac Newton_ in his _Chronology_, reckons 19 years for a medium of a king’s reign. So that in that space, there were about 19 kings, in this country. And there seems to be about that number of royal barrows (in my way of conjecturing) about the place.

I observe, this time we have assign’d for the building of _Stonehenge_, is not long after _Cambyses_’s invasion of _Egypt_. When he committed such horrid outrages there, and made such dismal havock, with the priests and inhabitants in general, that they fled the country to all parts of the world. Some went as far as the _East Indies_, and there taught many of the antient _Egyptian_ customs; as is taken notice of by the learned. It is not to be doubted that some of them fled as far westward, into the island of _Britain_, and introduced some of their learning, arts and religion, among the Druids; and perhaps had a hand in this very work of _Stonehenge_: the only one that I know of, where the stones are chizel’d. All other works of theirs, are of rude stones, untouch’d of tool, exactly after the patriarchal and _Jewish_ mode: therefore older.

This was at a time, when the _Phœnician_ trade was at height, the readier a conveyance to _Britain_: it was before the second temple at _Jerusalem_ was built: before the _Grecians_ had any history.

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Carvilii Regis Tumulus Iuly 29. 1723.

A. _Wilton._ B. _Sorbiodunum._ C. _Salisbury._ D. _M. Aurelius._ E. _the Icening street road._ F. _Harnham hill._ _Stukeley del._]

_Groundplot of the Second Temple at Persepolis_

_The Perspective of the Second Temple at Persepolis._

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INDEX.

Stonehenge _the latest of the Druid temples_, Page 1, 17, 66

_Older than the time of the_ Saxons _and_ Danes, 1, 2, 3, 7, 47

_Older than the time of the_ Roman Britons, 1, 2, 32

_Older than the time of the_ Belgæ, _who preceded the_ Roman
_invasion_, 4, 8, 9, 47

_The history of the_ Belgæ _seated about_ Stonehenge, _in_
Cæsar’_s time_, 4, 8, 47

_Our_ Welsh _the remains of the_ Belgæ, 8

_The_ Cimbrians _the same_, 48

_Of the_ Wansdike: _made by_ Divitiacus, 4, 47

_Of_ Vespasian’_s camp_ Ambresbury, 49

_The stones of_ Stonehenge _are from the gray weathers on_
Marlborough _downs_, 5, 47

_Of their nature, magnitude, weight_, 5, 6

_Of their number_, 30

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_Mr._ Webb’_s drawings of_ Stonehenge _false_, 3, 22, 25

_Absurd to compare the work to_ Roman _or_ Grecian _orders_, 6, 10,
16, 20, 21, 28

_The cell not form’d from three equilateral triangles_, 3, 18, 24,
33

_But one entrance into the_ area, 3, 18, 23, 33

_He makes one side of the cell out of a bit of a loose stone_, 29

_He has turn’d the cell a sixth part from its true situation_, 3, 22

_The cell not a hexagon, but an oval_, 20, 22, 29

_Demonstrated by Lord_ Pembroke’_s measure_, 28

_Demonstrated by trigonometry_, 22

_Proved by the surgeons amphitheater,_ London, _being an imitation
thereof_, 25

Stonehenge _not made by the_ Roman _foot_, 6

Webb _makes the inner circle, of thirty stones, instead of forty_,
20

_He contracts 119 feet to 43_, 33

_He draws a stone on the_ vallum _120 foot out of its true place_,
14

Stonehenge _not a monument_, 40

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_The Druids came with an oriental colony, upon the first_ Celtic
_inhabitants_, 62, 63

_Introduc’d here by the_ Tyrian Hercules, 7, 31, 32, 50, 52, 55, 63

_The colony were_ Phœnicians _or_ Arabians, 63, 66

_They found out our tin mines_, 32, 55, 63

_The Druids came hither about_ Abraham’_s time or soon after_, 2,
7, 31, 32, 49, 52

_They were of the patriarchal religion_, 1, 2, 17

_Which was the same as christianity_, 2, 54

Stonehenge _prov’d the work of the Druids from the infinite number
of the like, all over the_ Britannic _isles_, 3, 8

_Farther suggestions: because accounted sacred, made by magic,
medicinal, came from_ Ireland, Spain, Afric, Egypt. _In some places
the name of Druids remaining_, 3, 5, 9, 47, 48

_From the antiquities dug up about them_, 4, 45, 46

Schetland _isles the_ Hyperboreans _of the_ Greeks, _thence_ Abaris
_the_ Pythagorean _philosopher_, 40

Stonehenge _not built by the_ Saxons, _deduced from its name_, 7, 47

_Demonstrated to be older than_ Roman _times_, 9, 10

_Such in countries never conquered by the_ Romans, 3

Stonehenge _and such works built by the_ Phœnician _colony_, 8, 9,
32, 49

_The cathedral of the Arch-Druid_, 8, 10, 32

_Called antiently the_ Ambres, 9, 47

_Thence_ Vespasian’_s camp, and_ Ambresbury _nam’d_, 49

Stonehenge _call’d_ choir gaur: _the great church or cathedral_, 4,
47

_Made with mortaise and tenon, unusual with the_ Romans, 18

_Made by the ancient_ Hebrew, Phœnician _cubit_, 6, 12, 28

_Its proportion to our foot_, 6, 11, 15, 26, 30, 32

_The ancient_ decempedum, 12

_The Druids were geometricians_, 16, 18, 27, 42

_Knew the use of the compass_, 57, 63

_They carried a little ax to cut down misletoe_, 39, 48

_The Druids letter_, 31, 54

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_The patriarchal temples were open_, 19, 23, 30, 39, 40, 46, 52,
54, 58.

Moses’_s tabernacle the first cover’d temple_, 23, 24, 58

_Patriarchal temples_, 19, 40, 46, 50, 51, 54

_Of rude stones, unchizel’d_, 66

_The_ kebla, 24, 30, 40, 54

_Had no statues_, 55

_Patriarchal altars_, 30, 50, 52

_Their temples fronted the east_, 35

_Their temples were consecrated and endowed_, 52

_Paying tythe_, 52, 55

_Bowing, a part of worship_, 33, 34

_They officiated barefooted_, 55

_They practised chastity, before officiating_, ibid.

_The priests wore white linen surplices at the time of
officiating_, 24, 55

_Their publick devotion was call’d praying, or invoking, in the
N A M E_, 52

_They believ’d a future state_, 31

_They gave notice of religious festivals by fire_, 37

_Those were the quarterly sacrifices_, ibid.

_The manner of sacrificing_, 34, 54

_They us’d water for purification_, 11, 13, 14, 34

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_Of the water vases at_ Stonehenge, 11, 13, 14, 34

_The stone table there_, 34

_Of the stones and cavities on the_ vallum, 11, 14

Crwm-lechen, _bowing stones_, 33, 34

_Human sacrifices_, 54

_Heathen imitations of the_ Jews, 46, 60, 62

Main Ambres, _rocking stones,_ gygonia, petræ ambrosiæ, Bæthylia,
18, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54

Ambrosia _what?_ 51, 52

_Horned, anointed, analogous to sacred, consecrated_, 52, 59

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_The time when_ Hercules _lived_, 52, 53, 58

Hercules _built patriarchal temples, where-ever he came_, 54, 57

_Probably he made the_ Main Ambre _by_ Pensans, _and_ Biscawoon, 54

Persepolis _a patriarchal temple_, 19, 46

_Of the avenue of_ Stonehenge, 35, 39

_Of its two wings_, 35, 38, 41, 57

_Eastern wing, its variation_, 36, 56, 57, 64, 65

_Of the_ Hippodrom _or_ Cursus, 13, 41, 56

_Its variation_, 42, 57

_The_ Romans _borrowed the_ British _chariots_, 42

_The eastern_ meta, _its variation_, 57

_Other like works, in other parts of_ England, 43

_The_ via Iceniana, 9

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_Of the barrows or sepulchral_ tumuli, 43

_Druid barrows_, 10, 45

_Arch-Druids barrows_, 38

_Urn burial_, 44, 46

_The bodies lay north and south_, 45

_Beads of amber, glass, gold,_ &c. _found_, ibid.

_Horses, dogs, and other animals buried with them_, 46

Carvilius’_s tomb_, 4, 44, 46

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_The magnetical compass known to_ Hercules, _the_ Phœnicians _and_
Arabians, 57

_The oracle of_ Jupiter Ammon _had a compass_, 59, 61, 62

_The golden fleece was a compass_, 60, 62

_How the compass was forgot_, 55, 58, 63, 64

Apher _grandson of_ Abraham, _companion of_ Hercules, _from_
Arabia, 53, 62, 63

_He gave name to_ Africa _and to_ Britain, 53, 62, 63

_A scheme of the variation of the compass_, 65

_A conjecture therefrom, when_ Stonehenge _was founded_, 65

_F I N I S._

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