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say that “erratics” have been found south of the Plain, and by 
way of getting over the difficulty of the absence of any such 
“foreign” stones anywhere else on the Plain now, supposes that 
there were others once, but that they, in common with the sarsens 
have been broken up and used for various purposes, and so have 
disappeared. Against this is to be set the fact that no one has 
ever heard of any such erratics on the Plain, and that an unenclosed 
and until recently wild district, such as this, is the last place from 
Which any such stones would disappear if they had ever existed. 
Mr. Goddard, moreover, pointed out that in the recently-published 
Memoir of the Geological Survey on the Geology of the Country 
round Salisbury ; it is expressly said that :— 
**No trace of erratics has yet been met with in this area, and it seems 
bable that the peculiar far-transported blocks seen in the middle of 
mehenge were brought from low lands now destroyed by, or sunk beneath 
sea, lying off the present mouth of the Avon . . . and carried up 
the Avon on rafts.” 
_ This theory is at least easier to believe than the idea that the 
builders of Stonehenge used up the entire supply of “erratics” 
Which they found conveniently deposited for them on the spot. 
Mr. Story MaskELYNE agreed with what Mr. Goddard had said 
s to the origin of the “foreign” stones. He had no belief whatever 
1 the theory of their being “erratics” found on the spot. He 
lieved that the old theory that they were brought from a distance 
as the true one. He eulogised the work that had been done by 
Edmund Antrobus, and on the vexed question of the enclosure 
| the barbed wire he expressed the opinion that after all the 
portant than the unrestricted right of access of the public to it 
present moment—and that in whatever way the matter was 
ially decided, some form of enclosure would be found to be 
jority of the assembled company agreed. 
Ine thing at least was evident, that the barbed wire fence is by 
means the obstruction to the view, or the monstrous blot, that 
s to the papers would have us believe, and that the present 
of the monument is a great deal more seemly than was the 
