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 Architrave lying on the top of the great stones of the Hexagon, and mortaised also into them, sixteen foot long, three foot nine inches broad, and three foot four inches high. This Architrave continuing onely from stone to stone, left betwixt every two and two, a void space free to the Air uncovered. For, if they had been con∣tinued throughout the whole Hexagon, then necessarily there must have been two tenons upon each of the said stones, as those of the outward circle had, but being dispo∣sed as aforesaid, that one, which was in the middle, and yet remains apparent, was sufficient for the thing intended.