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adjoining the agger, within the area, " as to be able to examine the 

 undermost side of the stone, where we found fragments of stag's 

 horns/'' ^ Further on he says, " In more modern times (since 

 Stukeley's) we have found, on digging, several fragments of Roman, 

 as well as of coarse British pottery ; parts of the head and horns of 

 deer, and other animals, and a large barbed arrow head of iron. Dr. 

 Stukeley says that he dug close to the altar, and at the depth of one 

 foot came to the solid chalk. Mr. Cunnington also dug about the 

 same place to the depth of nearly six feet, and found the chalk had 

 been moved to that depth ; and at about the depth of three feet he 

 found some Roman pottery, and at the depth of six feet, some pieces 

 of sarsen stones, three fragments of coarse half-baked pottery, and 

 some charred wood. After what Stukeley has said of finding the 

 marl solid at the depth of one foot, the above discoveries would 

 naturally lead us to suppose, that some persons, since his time had 

 dug into the same spot ; yet after getting down about two feet, there 

 was less and less vegetable mould, till we reached the solid chalk ; some 

 small pieces of bone, a little charred wood, and some fragments of 

 coarse pottery were intermixed with the soil. In digging into the 

 ditch that surrounds the area, Mr. Cunnington found similar remains 

 of antiquity ; and in the waggon tracks, near Stonehenge, you fre- 

 quently meet with chippings of the stones of which the temple was 

 constructed. Soon after the fall of the great trilithon in 1797, Mr- 

 Cunnington dug out some of the earth that had fallen into the ex- 

 cavation, and found a fragment of fine black Roman pottery, and 

 since that, another piece in the same spot; but I have no idea that 

 this pottery ever lay beneath the stones, but probably in the earth 

 adjoining the trilithon, and after the downfall of the latter, fell with 

 the mouldering earth into the excavation. The only conclusion we 

 can draw from this circumstance of finding Roman pottery on this 

 ground is, that this work was in existence at the period when that 

 species of earthenware was made use oi by the Britons in our island.''^* 



> See page 56. 

 * Ancient Wilts, vol. i., pp. 144, 150, 151. Sir Richard Hoare has spoken in 

 the foregoing paragraph about the finding of Roman pottery. Stukeley has the 

 following about the tindiug of Roman coins: ''In 1724, when I was there, 



