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xo^xm of go&'n:=Cttlti&ntion mo\x\A Stontljenge. 



•^T is to be hoped that our grand-children will not have to look 

 ^ for Stonehenge in a field of turnips. The cultivation of the 

 down adjoining Stonehenge is gradually closing in upon it, and on the 

 west side has already resulted in the obliteration of the group o£ bar- 

 rows numbered from 15 to 22 (inclusive) . The large barrow, close to 

 the road, o£ group No. 14, (which Mr. Edwards, of Amesbury, in- 

 formed the writer had been nearly as large as No. 164,) has been de- 

 liberately degraded to its present low elevation that it may the more 

 easily be ploughed over. The adjoining barrows of this group, from 

 one of which the " Stonehenge " urn was taken, will soon have alto- 

 gether disappeared. On the opposite side of the road, a large portion 

 of the down on the slope below Eush Barrow and the adjoining 

 barrows, has been ploughed up. Our iron age, with its steam 

 ploughs, is too strong for the age of stone and bronze. 



An account of the results of the examination of each barrow on 

 the plain around Stonehenge will be given in an appendix. 



