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Do any of you learned folk know where the heck this image comes from?
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/60734/images/stonehenge.html
I just found it whilst clearing my hard drive and have no idea where I got it, other than at some point whilst digging about in the Lit and Phil. Soc. library in Newcastle, I must have photographed it.

I recall hotographing bits of Stukeley and Borlase, would either of them fit the bill to have reproduced a woodcut from 1571 by soeone who signed their work with the initials RF (I think it says 1571, that part of the repro is a bit blurry). The only other bit of info I have is that whatever book it's from, it was on page 109. So I don't know which book it comes from, nor who 'RF' is. And it's bugging me something rotten.

I think I saw that in a book as well, does the notes say something like 'place where mens bones were dug up'?? I think it was in a little paperback book by some french guy, it will come to me..

Does anyone know the name of the castle in the background of the picture?

Is it a romantic representation of Old Sarum or simply a Masonic doodle?

I have three originals of this and they do vary slightly ... I rescued one from my daughter years ago as she lunged towards it with a pack of felt tip pens!

Britannia and Old England are worth checking out ... has anyone colored (coloured) them in? I rarely show my Stukeley books to anyone these days as I remember a pre-Clovis (no, not the buttery spread) chap from New Hampshire a few years back who went to jab the fold out view of Avebury with a Biro! Suddenly I'm humming the Jimmy Durante song 'Ink a dink a do' ....

(Horrid Yanky spell checker ain't it)

* Camden's Britannia first published 1588

** Check the guy out listening to an i-pod ... you know he's there!

*** Stukeley's walking stick is actually a light saber I'm told and the guy in the Camden's piccy is a representation of the Long Man of Wilmer Flintstone according to spellcheck.

Wasn't this the earliest known drawing of the old place until a recent discovery announced in BA ?