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and numerous valuable carvings and foreign ornaments, purchased 
by the late Sydney Herbert, adorn this remarkable Church, over 
which the Vicar, the Rev. Canon Dacres Olivier, most consider- 
ately conducted the party. Thanking him heartily for his 
kindness, the party started for a very different sight, and after a 
six mile drive over Salisbury plain, reached Stonehenge, one of 
the most interesting relics of pre-historic times, still offering an 
inexplicable mystery to antiquarians. The Sarsen stones, of 
which are composed the outer circle and its imposts, the five 
gigantic trilithons of the great ellipse, the Friar’s Heel, and three 
external prostrate blocks, must have been brought by some means 
from the Marlborough Downs. The small inner circle of Syenite 
and primitive rock, 36 to 40 in number, and the inner ellipse of 
1S seem to have been brought from North Pembrokeshire and 
Carnarvonshire, while the altar stone is of micaceous sandstone of 
doubtful origin. The fact that many of these stones have been 
hewed and squared proves that Stonehenge is of later date than 
Avebury (also in Wilts) and Druidical circles in many other parts 
of Great Britain, Brittany, and elsewhere. The various opinions 
of antiquarians as to the motive of erecting Stonehenge, the period 
of its construction and how such enormous rocks could have been 
_ moved over valleys and trackless downs could not be considered 
_ by the Field Club on the spot owing to a heavy shower, and a 
feeling that the hour allowed no delay in seeking the George Inn 
at Amesbury, so remounting the cars in two miles this hostel was 
reached, full notice being paid en route to Vespasian’s Camp, and 
the Mansion of Sir Edmund Antrobus, built by Inigo Jones. 
Allowing half-an-hour for refreshment a start was again made 
for Salisbury, and three miles before reaching that city, the conical 
hill of old Sarum was passed, until the reign of Henry III. the 
site of the Cathedral, Bishop’s Palace, barracks for the garrison, 
and a trading population. Leland, writing in the reign of Henry 
 VIIL., states that not a single house was left within or without of 
Old Sarum. The Cathedral was taken down in 1331. The walls 
