
WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 
“MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS. ’—Ovid. 

JUNE, 1903. 
Aecent Excavations at Stonehenge. 
By Wituram Gowxanp, F.S.A. F.LC., 
Associate of the Royal School of Mines; with a 
Note on the Nature and Origin of the Wock-tragments 
found in the Excabations. 
By Proressor J. W. Jupp, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
No. 22 and its lintel, No. 122? on the last day of the 
century, directed the attention of. the public, and especially of 
archeologists, in a very forcible manner to the insecure position of 
other stones in this venerable monument. At a meeting of the 
Council of the Society of Antiquaries soon afterwards a resolution 
was passed and sent to Sir Edmund Antrobus, the owner of 
Stonehenge, expressing their desire to co-operate with him in any 
operations which might be advisable for its preservation. Sir 
ay fall of two of the stones of the outer circle of Stonehenge, 

1 This paper was read in part before the Society of Antiquaries on December 
19th, 1901, and before our own Society at the Chippenham Meeting, July 
15th, 1902. It is printed in Archeologia, vol. LVIII., pp. 1—82. For the 
kind loan of the blocks for the illustrations and plans here given our Society 
is indebted to the Council of the Society of Antiquaries.—[Ep.] 
2 See General Plan. This plan is based partly on that given in Professor 
W. M. Flinders Petrie’s Stonehenge: Plans, Descriptions, and Theories 
(London, 1880), and partly on my own surveys made after the ‘leaning 
- stone” had been set upright. 
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