236 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



fragments of various stones of the inner circle. These had probably 

 been broken oflP by visitors. 



The writer was under the impression that exposure to the weather 

 on the north side had produced the peculiar appearance of decay on 

 that side in stone F 2 (page 59), but Mr. Cunnington considers 

 that the decayed portions must have been originally of a softer 

 character than that of the body of the stone. 



On the arable land adjoining Stonehenge, where the group of 

 barrows 16 — 22 had been, two chips of sarsen stone were picked 

 up. The site of the " barrow-like " mounds (note, p. 65) was not 

 ascertained. 



Mr. Edwards, of Amesbury, has given the following interesting 

 information. In reply to the writer's wish to know how much of the 

 Cursus on the Amesbury side is under cultivation, and when it was first 

 ploughed up, he says: " The piece of down land which was broken up, 

 commencing at the top of the hill, where the Cursus terminates, 

 towards Amesbury, and which extends from thence into the bottom, 

 is fifty acres, and was ploughed up about twenty-five or twenty- six 

 years ago. It commences at the top of the hill, in a line with the 

 two Seven Barrows, and consists of the hanging or slope of the hill 

 down into the bottom called Stonehenge Bottom, and full in our view 

 when we were returning along the line of the Cursus.^' 



To the writer's enquiry when the barrows 15 to 22 (inclusive) 

 were levelled, Mr. Edwards answers : " This was done 28 years ago, 

 and my informant stated that, after it was done, when ploughing 

 there, it was his aim, as well as that of others, to see which could 

 pick up the most chippings. Some of them were granite and others 

 sand stone. Of the granite no use whatever could be made when 

 they took them home, but the sand stone they used for whetting or 

 sharpening reaping-hooks. As to when the farm building adjoining 

 the field in question were erected? That was built 29 years 

 ago." 



Mr. Edwards has also most kindly gathered for the writer the 

 following information respecting the successive owners of Stonehenge 

 during the last 250 years: — 



