Added to Web version by MB, October 2013

Notes on the illustrations

Title image

These megalith-building giants (one of whom is eating a normal-size man) are from Johan Picardt’s book Korte Beschryvinge van eenige Vergetene en Verborgene Antiquiteten (1660).  Scanned from the article.  For a better copy, see for example http://inenomassen.nl/johan_picardt.html

Alfred Watkins

A well-known photo, scanned here from the Abacus paperback edition of The Old Straight Track, and cropped as in the article.

Stones at Kermario

Scanned from the article. 

The Devil’s Arrows

From William Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum, vol. 2 (1776).  Scanned here from a facsimile reprint (Gregg International, 1969).  Even in Stukeley’s time there were only three stones left.  He says that one had been taken away to make a bridge over the beck, and that “silly people” had knocked the corners from the rest (vol. 2, p. 74).  The drawing in the book is dated 14th September 1725, not 1722 as stated in the article. 

The King Stone

Scanned from the article.