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STUKELEY'S "STONEHENGE."
By HENRY CUNLIFFE. (Hyde Park Street)
May I request a space in your periodical for the following Queries, drawn from Dr. Stukeley's *Stonehenge and Abury*, p. 31.? 1st. "But eternally to be lamented is the loss of that tablet of tin, which was found at this place (Stonehenge) in the time of King Henry VIII., inscribed with many letters, but in so strange a character that neither Sir Thomas Elliott, a learned antiquary, nor Mr. Lilly, master of St. Paul's school, could make any thing out of it. Mr. Sammes may be right, who judges it to have been *Punic*. I imagine if we call it Irish we shall not err much. No doubt but what it was…
Topics: Antiquarian Studies, Druid Writing, Historical Inscriptions
Locations: Stonehenge, St. Paul's school, Vienna