The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbvry plain restored by Inigo Jones ...

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Title: The most notable antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbvry plain restored by Inigo Jones ...
Author: Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.
Publication: London :: Printed by James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman ..., and Laurence Chapman ...,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Stonehenge (England) -- Early works to 1800.
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The stones which made the outward Circle, seven foot in breadth; three foot and an half thick, and fifteen foot and an half high: each stone having two tenons mortai∣sed into the Architrave, continuing upon them, through∣out the whole circumference. For, these Architraves, be∣ing joynted directly in the middle of each of the perpen∣dicular stones that their weight might have an equall bea∣ring, and upon each side of the joynt a tenon wrought, (as remains yet to be seen) it may positively be concluded thereby, the Architrave continued round about this out∣ward circle.