By William Long, Esq. 235 



1 and No. 20, 5 feet. These two stones (each about 6 feet in height) 

 form the inner entrance. The extra distance between these two 

 stones, their peculiar flattened forms and rounded tops, so diff*erent 

 from those of the other obelisks, would seem to indicate the regard 

 for effect which those who erected these stones had in this particular 

 portion of tlie smaller circle. The distance between No. 20 and 

 No. 19 is 2 feet 4 inches; between No. 19 and No. 18, 2 feet 4 

 inches; and between Nos. 18 and 17 the same. The syenite stone. 

 No. 15, which is of very fine grain, is 7 feet long ; the interval be- 

 tween the syenites, Nos. 13 and 14, is 9 feet 8 inches, and between 

 Nos. 14 and 16, 11 feet. The stone of the outer circle, opposite to 

 the small syenite transom (7 feet 6 inches long), next to No. 3, is, 

 on the inside, 13 feet 4 inches high, 5 feet 10 inches wide, and 4 

 feet in thickness. The upright stone of the outer circle, opposite 

 to No. 6, and adjoining the fragment of syenite belonging to that 

 stone, is ] 2 feet 6 inches high. The standing stone of the outer 

 circle behind No. 11, (upon which the broad arrow has been cut), is 

 14 feet high, 7 feet wide, and 4 feet 5 inches thick. The measure- 

 ments taken of stone F 2, by the writer and his son, in the autumn 

 of 1875, were : height, 16 feet 8 inches; breadth, 7 feet 6 inches; 

 aud thickness, 3 feet 10 inches. From the difference between these 

 measurements of that stone and those of Sir Henry James, it may 

 be seen how difficult it is to make the most careful measurements 

 tally. The allowance made by some persons for loss by the rounding 

 oflT of edges (which weather or violence may have occasioned) will 

 often make a difference of 2 or 3 inches. 



The stone on the north-west portion of the vallum is 4 feet high, 

 and 3 feet 6 inches wide at the broadest part. 



On the occasion of our visit on the 7th of April last, Mr. 

 Cunnington found, in the ruts of a waggon-track close to Stone- 

 henge, splinters of the syenite-like stone, of the horn-stone (so- 

 called), and of the sarsen stone ; and also a small but well-formed 

 chipped flint celt. These si^ecimens were all picked out of the earth 

 just below the turf, where it had been cut through by the wheels. 

 He also picked up, under the large stone resting on No. 9, aud under 

 the great sloping stone of the large central trilith, as many as nine 



