Show TEMPLE STONES THAT MAY BECOME HEARTH STONES cable reports recently stated that Ilar borough itous one of the best known of the s so called druid circles of england would bould be bielien up and used by a company for building homes the reports bring to mind ali what it might be termed the fight for survival of the monuments arid and works of art of past ages against the activities of later generations during the lark dark ages priceless marble statues by and greek masters of sculpture wore were burned to make little lime lu in northern africa and asia minor in nu numerous places where clas classical leal ruins are found beautifully chiseled stories stones physical s symbols of the glory that was greece and tile the grandeur that was rome lave been built into the uncouth huts of the natives dative the smaller stones from druid circles and avenues lying on the lie surface of the ground ready quarried have long fallen prey to nearby near by hy peasants in all tile the coun tiles in which they occur men een the stonehenge Slone henge on oil salisbury plain england famous as the greatest of the supposed druid temples and one of th tins most striking tri king of the inscribed monuments of the world has not entirely esen escaped lied the hand band of the vandal the larger monoliths are too massive for easy removal but some conle of the smaller 1 stones atones hae disappeared and are arc reported to hae been built into bridges and will dams of uie the ad adjacent countryside small stone arcles arid and parallel lows of monoliths known knon us its avenues are numerous in ili england wales vales scotland and ireland they alo are found in numbers in me vi estein tein europe especially in france and to a lessor lesser degree in northern africa and in southern asia as far east cast as india among them however the comparatively few great groups stand out prominently stonehenge differs from roost most ot of the other circles in the great size of the upright stones and in the fact that inuss lve hotels are arc placed front from upright to upright forming ithone the placing of the concentric e circles and outlying marker stories stones of in such a wity way that its axis points practically to the rising sun suit on the hie longest day of the year tile hie summer holmke lias led to general acceptance of the lie theory that tills was it a temple fur for sun still worship because of an astronomical change which shifts the apparent point of sunrise at successive summer sol it has been pc possible isible to compute the lie date of the building of stonehenge its as approximately B C it Is believed that the smaller circles and the avenues and other monuments of great stones belong to approximately the same period which Is the late lalo le lc age willie the larger circle like it the stonehenge and acks I 1 doubtless doubt lesa are for sun suit mor shil and human sacrifice it Is believed that the smaller groups of 0 stones mark bu trial rial places I 1 |