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Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids: Index

Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, by William Stukeley, [1740] | 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 | F I N I S.