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Re: Earliest (detailed) sketch of Stonehenge
Dec 07, 2006, 12:02
The British Archaeology magazine for January-February 2006-2007 carries a six page article by Christian Heck on the newly discovered sketch of Stonehenge in the Scala Mundi manuscript. There is a full-page colour illustration of the leaf containing the illustration, as well as three other illustrations of Stonehenge from early sources, one of which is a second full page-illustration of Stonehenge in the Douai manuscript which now in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The English translation of the Latin immediately below the Scala Mundi sketch of Stonehenge reads -

That year Merlin, not by force but art, brought and erected the giants' round from Ireland, at Stonehenge near amesbury.

The article concludes with a two-column postscript by Mike Pitts entitled, Was Geoffrey Right? The magazine is well worth buying just for the fantastic colour illustrations (it also includes articles on the Bosnia Pyramid and the Tombs and Stone Circles on Banc Du).
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