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Title: Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders

Author: T. Eric Peet

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[Illustration: STONEHENGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST]

ROUGH STONE
MONUMENTS
AND THEIR
BUILDERS

BY

T. ERIC PEET

FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD;
LATELY CRAVEN FELLOW IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF OXFORD AND PELHAM STUDENT AT
THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF ROME

HARPER & BROTHERS
LONDON AND NEW YORK
45 ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1912

_Published October, 1912_.

PREFACE

The aim of this volume is to enable those who are interested in
Stonehenge and other great stone monuments of England to learn something
of the similar buildings which exist in different parts of the world, of
the men who constructed them, and of the great archaeological system of
which they form a part. It is hoped that to the archaeologist it may be
useful as a complete though brief sketch of our present knowledge of the
megalithic monuments, and as a short treatment of the problems which
arise in connection with them.

To British readers it is unnecessary to give any justification for the
comparatively full treatment accorded to the monuments of Great Britain
and Ireland. Malta and Sardinia may perhaps seem to occupy more than
their due share of space, but the usurpation is justified by the
magnificence and the intrinsic interest of their megalithic buildings.
Being of singularly complicated types and remarkably well preserved they
naturally tell