By William Gowland, F.S.A., FIC. i 
Layers 7, 8, and 9 yielded the following implements :— 
Ten axes. Flint. 
One axe. Argillaceous sandstone. 
| Nine hammerstones with edge. Flint. 
: Four hammerstones rounded. Flint. 
Ten hammerstones rounded. Compact sarsen. 
Seven large mauls. Compact sarsen. Weights from 36 pounds 2 ounces 
to 58 pounds 7 ounces. 
In addition to the large find of stone tools, another important 
result of this excavation is the discovery of the blocks of sarsen 
mentioned above, from which we learn how the stone No. 55 was 
secured in an upright position after it had been erected. 
: No well-defined cutting in the chalk to indicate the original 
position of the base of this stone was seen except the shallow 
cavity shown in Fig. 8, from which a block of sarsen was removed. 
The blocks of sarsen, too, on the south-west of the excavation were 
rather confusedly jumbled owing to their displacement by the 
falling of the stone. But there cannot be the slightest doubt that 
they forme the packing of the back of its base, and the two larger 
blocks and the stone mauls that of the front. The base must 
therefore originally have occupied the space between them, and 
this would bring this upright of the trilithon into line with its 
companion, No. 56.1 When the stone No. 55. fell it seems to have 
jumped in a south-west direction, so that its lower half now lies 
over the cavity in which it once stood. 
If we now refer to Fig. 2, a striking feature of the Excavations 
Ill. and Q is manifest, viz., that all the tools found, with but few 
exceptions, occurred in them, either in or near the cavity occupied 
by No. 55 before its fall. They had doubtless been thrown in 
around this stone when it was being set up, the mauls having been 
_ wedged in below the front of its base to act together with the large 
blocks of sarsen as supports. 
__ Excavation V.—Figs. 2 and 9. 
This was begun after the leaning stone had been set upright to 
the south-west. The whole of the ground was of an entirely 
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_ ‘See Fig. 8, in which the position of No. 56 is indicated by a dotted outline. 
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