| By William Gowland, FS.A., FPLC. 49 










around it. In succeeding years Mr. Thomas Davies carried these 
. important investigations still farther by the study of specimens 
‘sent to him from time to time by Mr. William Cunnington. 
On July 8th, 1881, no less than 172 chips of stone were obtained 
_ by Mr. Cunnington from three small holes at Stonehenge. These 
| when submitted to Mr. Thomas Davies were classified by him as 
follows :— 
Diabase - - - - 39 
Felsite - - - - 62 
Quartzites with traces of felspar - 8 
Sarsen stone - - - 9 
Calciferous chloritic schist - - 49 
Micaceous sandstone (like altar-stone) — - 5 
In the paper in which this discovery is recorded, it is mentioned 
that Mr. H. Cunnington had found two stumps of stones, one of 
Bin at South Kensington. 
4 p08 Mi. yyham Cunnington pubmibted to Mr. Teall a 
4 area of the building” at Stonehenge. The a cutee slides 
‘amined by Mr. Teall enabled him to class the rocks from which 
* “Stonehenge Notes: The Fragments,” by W. Cunnington, Wilts Arch. 
Mag., xxi. (1883), 141-149. 
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