[Stones] Stonehenge and Avebury Quotes

[Ric]

littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:          "'You won't see Stonehenge every day, young man' said the custodian, a little piqued.
  'It's only an old beach,' said the small boy, with extreme conviction. 'It's rocks like the seaside. And there isunt no sea.'"
   
  o but there is - [bless!] - if you follow the Avenue to the Avon [afon - that's Welsh, bach], the river will, by and by, take you to the lovely sea
   
  mind you don't try this at home, though!
   
  now, off you run ...
   
  H G Wells: The Secret Places of the Heart
   
  "In the afternoon come to Abebury, where, seeing great stones like those of Stonage standing up, I stopped, and took a countryman of that town, and he carried me and shewed me a place trenched in, like Old Sarum almost, with great stones pitched in it, some bigger than those at Stonage in figure, to my great admiration: and he told me that most people of learning, coming by, do come and view them, and that the King did so: and that the Mount cast hard by is called Selbury, from one King Seall buried there, as tradition says. I did give this man 1s. So took coach again, seeing one place with great high stones pitched round, which, I believe, was once some particular building, in some measure like that of Stonage. But, about a mile off, it was prodigious to see how full the Downes are of great stones; and all along the vallies,
stones of considerable bigness, most of them growing certainly out of the ground so thick as to cover the ground, which makes me think the less of the wonder of Stonage, for hence they might undoubtedly supply themselves with stones, as well as those at Abebury."*   
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
   
  * Thanks to Nigel Swift for the latter submission. There's a pic to accompany the Peyps' piece, as well as some new pics of Avebury in the recent snow, at http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ The pic entitled On sorrow's pillow tossed, and the poem entitled Like a frozen drop of transience are dedicated to Rebecca van der Putt (treaclechops) who was at the Megameet in Avebury last summer and who, at the tender age of only 39, sadly passed away earlier this year.


i am sorry to hear this

ric
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