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Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids

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« Reply #105 on: March 06, 2009, 01:37:16 pm »

more easterly than with us. Orontius Finæus in 1550 observ’d it to be there, about 9 degrees, easterly, therefore to reduce it, I have stated it at 11 degrees 30. and from thence continued it, to the present time, as in the ensuing table.

Anno Dom.
 Observation.
 Variation.
deg. min.
 
1550
 By Finæus
 11 30 east.
 
1580
    Mr. Burroughs
 11 15 east.
 
1600
 
 8  0 east.
 
1622
    Mr. Gunter
 6  0 east.
 
1634
    Mr. Gellibrand
 4  5 east.
 
1642
 
 3  5 east.
 
1657
    Mr. Bond
 0  0     
 
1665
    Mr. Bond
 1 22 west.
 
1666
    Capt. Sturmy
 1 27 west.
 
1667
    Capt. Sturmy
 1 33 weft.
 
1672
    Dr. Halley
 2 30 west.
 
1683
 
 4 30 west.
 
1685
 
 5  5 west.
 
1692
 
 6  0 west.
 
1723
 
 11  0 west.
 
1733
 
 12  0 west.
 
1740
 
 15 45 west.
 

By this table it appears, that in the space of 180 years, the variation of the magnetic needle in England, has shifted from 11 degrees and a half eastward, to 11 degrees and a half westward. In 90 years the medium of those extremes, which was 1657, there was no variation at all; the needle pointing due north and south. But alas our observations extend no farther. We know not the bound of the variation, on either hand: nor the quantity of its motion, when thereabouts. Mr. Geo. Graham thinks it is now near the western bound. It is very slow, in all probability, when upon the return, and as it were, stationary: like the sun's motion at the tropics, when it is returning. So that the nice determination of its circle, and of its motion, is reserved for remote posterity. Dr. Halley conjectures, that the whole period of variation, is perform’d in about 700 years. Upon this supposition, in gross, we may thus found our conjecture, of the time of building of Stonehenge.

By what we can find, the variation is about 9 minutes in a year, or a degree and a half in to years, at this part of its circle. Now I observ’d at Stonehenge, that the eastern wing of the avenue, the cursus and other parts belonging to the temple, abated somewhat in their variation, eastward, being somewhat less than that of the temple itself. It is highly reasonable to believe, that the great work of Stonehenge could not take less than half a score years in building: and that those other works were made in succeeding years, not long after it was finished. From hence I gather, which way the magnetic variation was moving, at the time of sounding Stonehenge, viz. from east toward no variation and so to west. This must be the foundation of our calculus.

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 preceeding 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

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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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Plate 34. Carvilii Regis Tumulus Iuly 29 1723.
Sorbiodunum. C. Salisbury. D. the Icening street road. F. Harnham hill.
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Plate 35. The Perspective of the Second Temple at Persepolis.
(inset) Groundplot 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
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
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 bitter about Abraham's time or soon after,
 2, 7, 31, 32, 49, 52
 
p. i2
 
 
They were of the patriarchal religion,
 Page 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 decem-pedum,
 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
 
 
 
 
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 demotion was call’d praying, or invoking, in the NAME,
 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
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
p. i3
 
 
Human sacrifices,
 Page 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
 
 
 
 
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, 45
 
Of the avenue of Stonehenge,
 35, 39
 
Of its two wings,
 35, 38, 41, 57
 
Eastern wing, its variation,
 36, 56, 57, 64, 57
 
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
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
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
 

 

 

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