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He next looked from the opposite window, and here the case was different. The frost-facets glistened under the moon as before; an occasional furze bush showed as a dark spot on the same; and in the foreground stood the ghostly form of the trilithon. But in front of the trilithon stood a man.
This outer circle enclosed a second of similar shape but lesser diameter, within which again were taro elliptic circles, the outer consisting of ten or twelve sandstone blocks some twenty-two feet high, standing in pairs, each pair united by a slab laid horizontally across, so as to form a trilithon.
'I'll provide for her, and make a comfortable woman of her, until you speak of what? 'Of my shepherd days, and what I saw here. 'Good. If you do speak of it? 'Smash down she comes to widowing forthwith! 'That's well very well. But it's not enough. Come here. He took the boy across to the trilithon, and made him kneel down. 'Now, this was once a holy place, resumed the Duke.
The pillars weigh sixty-five tons, and a local tradition affirms that the coralline conglomerate out of which they were hewn was brought from Wallis Island, more than a thousand miles off. It is difficult to explain how the makers of this trilithon managed to transport, to work, and to place such masses in position.
The Duchess ran rapidly down the hill towards the outlying mansion of Shakeforest Towers, and when he had watched her out of sight, he turned and strode off in the opposite direction. All then was silent and empty as before. Yet it was only for a moment. When they had quite departed, another shape appeared upon the scene. He came from behind the trilithon.
That he was not the shepherd or any one of the farm labourers was apparent in a moment's observation, his dress being a dark suit, and his figure of slender build and graceful carriage. He walked backwards and forwards in front of the trilithon.
An avenue still 1200 feet in length, bordered by two walls of earth, leads up to the rampart from the north-east. On the axis of this avenue and nearly at its extremity stands the upright stone known as the Friar's Heel. In 1901, in the course of repairing the central trilithon, careful excavations were carried out over a small area at Stonehenge.
One of the roof stones having been broken, it has been strengthened by the addition of an inside pillar. Covered avenue near Antequera. In the Long Barrows of Littleton, Nempnitt, and Uley, the crypt is reached by an avenue, the entrance of which is closed by a trilithon, and a similar arrangement is met with in many megalithic monuments of Scania.
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