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Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
publication. They are:—(View showing the leaning stone)—‘‘ General 
View—Starting for Excavating with Ropes Strained—Cutting the Soil in 
Sections 1 foot square 6 inches deep—Sifting Soil through four different 
meshes down to tinch size—Side Elevation of the Leaning Stone — Kast 
View of the Leaning Stone—The Leaning Stone Upright—The Frame 
for Registering the Finds—Exposed Surface of Base of Pillar, 8 feet below 
ground, showing the high finish of the work.—The Base of the Pillar, 
8 feet 6 inches under ground, showing surface of stone —Hammers— 
Flints for cutting softer Stones.” 
Mr. Blow gives a short account of the history of Stonehenge. This is 
followed by a report of the discussion which followed, in which Sir 
Norman Lockyer and Mr. F. C. Penrose give their reasons for fixing 
the approximate date of the erection at 1680 B.C.—Mr. W. H. St. John 
Hope speaks of the date and the method of working the stones—and Mr. 
Emmanuel Green deprecates the idea that the date arrived at by Sir 
Norman Lockyer should be considered as a final solution of the question. 
Pages 1837—142 are occupied with a reprint (in full) from the Proceedings 
of the Royal Society, Vol. lxix., No. 452, 19th Nov., 1901, of Sir Norman 
Lockyer’s paper, ‘‘An attempt to ascertain the date of the original 
construction of Stonehenge from its orientation,’ by Sir Norman Lockyer, 
K.C.B., F.R.S., and F. C. Penrose, F.R.S. 
Stonehenge. 
Devizes Gazette, Nov. 20th, 1902. Ata meeting of the Wilts County 
Council, Nov. 19th, 1902, the chairman, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, 
reported that he had been in communication with Sir Edmund Antrobus 
as to the possibilty of the purchase and control of Stonehenge by some 
public body. Circumstances had arisen, however, which prevented Sir 
Edmund from making any definite proposal at present, but he quite — 
hoped that he would be able to do so at the February meeting of the 
Council. 
A meeting of the Stonehenge Committee was held at the Society of | 
Antiquaries on Nov. 12th, 1902, nine members representing the three 
societies represented by the committee being present. It was decided 
to recommend to Sir Edmund Antrobus the erection of temporary 
wooden props against those stones which are most in danger of falling 
in the winter gales. The committee recorded their approval of the steps 
already been taken for the preservation of the monument and their 
hope that the other stones now out of the perpendicular and in danger 
of falling may be thoroughly concreted at the base, as the stone formerly 
leaning had already been. 
The committee of the National Trust, at their annual meeting on 
Nov. 17th, 1902, in their report reiterated their objections to the enclosure, 
and their opinion that the monument ought to become the property of 
some public body. 
Devizes Gazette, Dec. 4th, 1902, refers totletter from Mr.Shaw Lefevre 
in which he maintains that £125,000 was the price asked by Sir Edmund 

