By William Gowland, F.S.A., FIC. 15 
to have a natural and not an artificially worked surface, and was 
probably the result of a joint in the bed of rock of which the block 
once formed a part. 
The underground face was found to be carefully tooled over its 
entire surface, as shown in Fig. 13, which represents a part of a 
large flake that became detached during the operation of raising 
the stone. 
EXCAVATION Q.—Figs. 2 and 8. 
This excavation was not made until No. V. was completed, but 
it will be advantageous to consider it here, as it is so intimately 
related to No. IIL. just described, both by position and its large 
yield of stone implements, and more especially because they to- 
gether opened up the original site of the base of the now recumbent 
monolith, No. 55. 
The excavation was made entirely under the recumbent stone 
_ 95a. It extended from the block of sarsen exposed at the south- 
east end of Excavation V. to a distance of 5 feet 6 inches to the 
south-west, 5 feet to the south-east measured from the monolith, 
and to a depth of 8 feet below the datum line. 
The recumbent stone was found to be resting about 3 or 4 inches 
clear of the ground on the sarsen block above mentioned, and 
another similar one beside it at one end, and on a pile of blocks 
about 8 feet distant at the other. Several other blocks of the same 
rock shown in Figs. 2 and 8 were also discovered. 
The chalk rock was reached at from 4 to 5 feet below the datum 
line. Facing the south-east side of the monolith it had been cut 
away so as to form a sloping wall, the base of which was 1 foot and 
the upper edge about 2 feet distant from it. 
The recumbent stone, No. 55a, was found to be carefully tooled 
over the whole of its under face. 
Near the middle there was a very distinct longitudinal rib similar 
to those on the monolith, No. 59a, of the fallen trilithon, showing 
the manner in which its surface had been trimmed. This face has 
slight but distinct curvature or entasis similar to that exhibited 
by the sides of No. 56, the formerly “leaning stone.” 
















