[627] A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of Australia, 1904, pp. 453-5.
[628] Guide to Bronze Age, p. 16; T. Rice Holmes, op. cit. p. 103.
[629] Sir J. Norman Lockyer, Stonehenge, and other British Monuments, 1906, pp. 320 et seqq. This inquiry was to some extent anticipated by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, Stonehenge, 1880, pp. 18-20 (discussion on the alinement of that monument to the Midsummer sunrise). The question of earthwork orientation is also referred to by A. H. Allcroft, Earthwork of England, 1908, pp. 337, 564, 589, &c.
[630] See Sir J. N. Lockyer’s contributions to Nature, LXXIX., LXXX. passim.
[631] Sir J. N. Lockyer’s theories have been adversely criticized by T. Rice Holmes, Ancient Britain, pp. 472-82; by C. W. Dymond, in Antiquary, N.S., IV. pp. 447-9; Edinburgh Review, CLXXX. 1894, pp. 418-432; A. R. Hinks in Nineteenth Century, LIII. 1903, pp. 1002-9. Among papers upholding the theory, see J. Griffith, in Nature, LXXIX. pp. 36-7; LXXX. pp. 69-72; J. Gray, in Nature, LXXIX. pp. 236-8. Mr Gray thinks that our stone circles were raised by a race which came from Asia during the Bronze Age—probably that of Akkadian type. See also A. L. Lewis, in Jour. Royal Anthrop. Inst., XXIX. 1909, pp. 517-29, dealing with Irish Cromlechs; E. Plunket, in Nineteenth Century, 1911, pp. 1036-53.
[632] Sir J. N. Lockyer, article in Times, 30th July, 1906.
[633] C. W. Dymond, in Antiquary, N.S., IV. pp. 447-9.
[634] T. Rice Holmes, op. cit. p. 473.
[635] J. Griffith, in Nature, LXXX. p. 71.
[636] G. Allen, Evol. of Idea of God, p. 41; cf. T. Wright, The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, 2nd ed., 1861, p. 406. A similar view is taken by G. Baldwin Brown, in The Arts in Early England, 1903, I. pp. 266-7. See also T. Hearne, Coll. of Curious Discourses, 1775, I. p. 225.