252 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



exact centre line of the building and of the avenue to have originally pointed 

 to the midsummer sunrise, the present divergence of the sun's position due 

 to the obliquity of the ecliptic would give — by careful calculation— an 

 approximate date for the foundation of the structure. This date works out 

 to 1680 B.C., with a possible error of two hundred years on either side. 



It is remarkable that the wholly independent excavations carried out by 

 Mr. W. Gowland in 1901 pointed, in his opinion, to the approximate date, 

 of 2000 B.C. at which the latter part of the Neolithic and the beginning of 

 the Bronze Age may be put. 



A plan and a view of the axis of the building accompany the paper in 

 both cases. 



The Ag'e of StOUeheUg'e. What Astronomy says. What 



Archaeology says. A well illustrated article in The Sphere, Jan. 4th, 1902, 

 by P. H. The illustrations are: A Bird's-eye View of Circle, Avenue, &c., 

 showing " How the Date of 1680 B.C. was arrived at by means of the shift 

 of the sun " — " Stonelienge as a great Solar Clock, How the Sun used to 

 set on the Shortest Day "—"A Huge Stone of the Avebury Circles" — "A 

 Standing Stone near Manipur, India"— A Photo of the Leaning Stone, 

 erect, with a drawing of its base and the position in which the Stone 

 Hammers, &c., were found "Where the proofs of the Stone Age of 

 Stonehenge were found"— Photos of the big Sarsen Mauls, and of the 

 Hand Hammers, and the two Roman Coins found near the surface. The 

 letterpress is a good summary of the results of the excavation. 



The Attempt to solve the Age of. An article by 



p. H. in The Sphere, July 6th, 1901, pp. 14, 15. This is an interesting 

 popular account of the observations taken by Mr. Howard Payn at sunrise 

 on June 21 — 25, 1901, with a view to determining the age of the structure. 

 An excellent pictorial diagram explains the difference in the sun's position 

 which is supposed to have taken place since the erection of the circle, and 

 the method of calculating the age of the structure from that difference. 

 There are also good process views of Mr. Howard Payn Measuring the Sun's 

 position — Waiting for the Sun to rise at Stonehenge, 3.30, a.m. — A Ground 

 Plan— and The Friar's Heel Stone, Reprinted in Salisbury Journa I 

 July 6th ; Devizes Gazette, July 11th, 1901. 



An abstract.of Mr. W. Gowland's lecture before the Society of Antiquaries 



on Dec. 19th, 1901, on the Raising of the Leaning Stone and of the 

 Discoveries made in the Excavations, is given in The Antiquary, Feb., 1902, 

 vol. xxxviii., 59 ; also in Wiltshire Times, Dec. 28th, 1901 ; Morning Post, 

 Dec. 20th ; Times, Dec. 20th ; Devizes Gazette, Dec. 24th ; Standard, 

 with leading article, Dec. 20th. 



Some Impressions of Priceless Stonehenge, 



by Lady Antrobus. Lady's Realm, Feb., 1900, p. 532. lUust. 



An article in Munseys Mag., May, 1901, pp. 310—315, entitled " The 



British Sphinx," by Henry H. Bates. A gossippy account of the monument 

 illustrated with five good process views. 



