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that Stonehenge was an incomplete work, because the removal of 
the lump was never completed. I think its retention was 
intentional. You observe that the pick marks or holes lead up 
to a point, and I think that point is necessary for any proper 
observation of sunrise when Stonehenge was built, and as the 
bare point would have been very liable to damage if lett exposed 
so near to the surface of the ground, the lump was left as a 
protection for that point. Let us plant a white wand in the 
ground, for the occasion, close to that point. Let us now go 
behind the great trilithon; you will see that wand will be 
exactly in a line with the peak of the Hele stone, if you place 
your prismatic compass about one foot to the right of the staff, 
which we shall have set up, as near as we can set it, where the 
side of the now leaning upright of the trilithon stood and 
would stand again if it were placed, in its original erect position. 
The line thus found is the line along which those who built. 
Stonehenge observed the sun rising on the longest day of the 
year. A Mr. Cunnington, F.S.A., in 1816, found the earth had 
been moved at the foot of the slaughter stone, whence he concluded 
that it was once upright and had fallen. My answer is that. 
if it be a fact that the earth had been moved there, other 
mound-diggers may have been searching there before him; or 
the builders may have once intended to erect the stone, but- 
afterwards abandoned the idea when they found it would answer 
its purpose, as well or better, if it were left prostrate, but in 
position. 
The angle which the prismatic compass, which does not give 
minutes, showed on the 2nd November, 1897, for this line was 
just about, ora little over, 66°. It was in fact 66° 1’ 44”. Deduct. 
for the variation of the needle at that time and place 17° 9’, and 
we obtain as the angle from the North 48° 52’ 44”. Now deduct 
this from 90°, the result is 41° 7’ 16” from the East, and this was. 
the amplitude of the Sun and the angle from the East, which, from 
the figures I shall shortly set out, I conclude that the alignment. 
