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 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]
- 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 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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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