The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

232 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

friable boulder sandstone formation (the so-called ‘‘ Sarsen ” stone). On my arrival I found people standing upon it, and this friction by the feet of visitors during the centuries has worn down the signs very shallow and almost worn them away in places. Yet the engraved marking is nevertheless still quite unmistakable in its main features. The “diamond” is of almost identical size with that of the Keswick Circle, and is somewhat more rectangular in shape

This Observation Stone at Stonehenge lies probably in its original spot and prone position; and is not a “ fallen”’ stone or fragment, as supposed. Its location with reference to the great horse-shoe crescent of colossal lintelled “ trilithons,”’ the so-called temple, a structure which now forms the most conspicuous feature of the modern Stonehenge, discloses the important fact that this “ trilithon ’ temple is of relatively late origin, and erected by a different people from those who erected and used the Stone Circle, and belonging to a non-Sun-worshipping cult. This is evidenced by the fact that the “trilithon’’ temple completely blocks the view from the Observation Stone to the centre of the Circle and from thence out along the axis of the outlying index pillars and great avenue to the N.E. to the point of Midsummer Sunrise ; and also by the fact that the users of this “trilithon ’’ temple and its “altar’’ stone must in their ritual have habitually turned their backs on the Rising Sun. This trilithon temple was thus presumably erected by later Druids, like the later ‘‘ temple’ within the Keswick Circle. The Druids were anti-solar, and worshippers of the Moon-cult of the vindictive aboriginal Mother goddess and addicted to bloody and human sacrifices, which were antagonistic and abhorrent to the ‘“‘ Sun-worshippers.” It thus appears probable that this “ triithon’’ temple at Stonehenge was erected by later Celtic Druids within the old Circle of the Sun-worshipping Aryan Britons, after the latter had abandoned it, presumably on their conversion to Christianity ; and that it probably dates to no earlier than about the sixth century A.p., when we are told by Geoffrey that the Druid magician Merlin erected buildings of gigantic stones at