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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
It has long been understood that if any definite connexion could be proved between Stonehenge and the barrows of admittedly Bronze Age date which surround it, an approximate dating would be possible of Stonehenge itself. The common, first-sight belief that the barrows and the monument represent a necropolis encircling its sanctuary has been opposed on the ground of the irregular grouping and distances of the barrows. It may, however, be suggested in passing that if the Plain was parcelled out among clans or families into territories nearer and further and of varying sizes, and if the known custom obtained of burying the important dead where they had lived, this irregularity is explicable.
page 17 note 1 Ancient S. Wilts., pp. 157–8 and map to face p. 70.
page 17 note 2 Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlii, pp. 431–7.Google Scholar
page 18 note 1 Wilts. Arch. Mag. xvi, p. 66, note 1.Google Scholar
page 18 note 2 Ibid., note 2.
page 19 note 1 In the excavation of a barrow at Porton, Wilts., in 1916, superintended by myself, the cist was located by a similar patch of whiter earth.—G. E.
page 19 note 2 B.A.P., vol. 1, p. 146; also p. 88. Archaeologia, vol. lxxvi, p. 96.
page 20 note 1 Wilts. Arch. Mag., vol. 16, p. 66, note.
page 20 note 2 Archaeologia, vol. xliii, pp. 310–12, and lxi, p. 101. Greenwell, Brit. Barrows, pp. 18–20. Arch. Cambr., June 1928, pp. 147–54.
page 20 note 3 Crawford on Barrows, Antiquity, vol. 1, no. 4.
page 20 note 4 Pp. 18, 19. See the whole passage.
page 21 note 1 Stourhead Collection, no. 28. Illustrated by Abercromby, B.A.P., 1, pl. cix.
page 21 note 2 Déchelette, Manuel, vol. 2, p. 191. Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements of Britain, p. 256.
page 21 note 3 Arch. Cambr., June 1928, p. 146.
page 21 note 4 Wilts. Arch. Mag., June 1911, p. 94.
page 21 note 5 Antiq. Journ., July 1923, Thomas, ‘The Source of the Stones of Stonehenge’.
page 21 note 6 Wheeler, Prehistoric and Roman Wales, p. 100.
page 22 note 1 Déchelette, Manuel, vol. i, p. 374. And others passim.
page 22 note 2 Antiquity, September 1931, p. 316.
page 22 note 3 Thomas, loc. cit.
