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The Raising of the Leaning Stone. Under the 



head of the " Preservation of Stonehenge," many paragraphs and articles 

 appeared in the London and local papers about Sept. 19th, 1901. 



Salisbury and Stonehenge. Article by a. j. h. Crespi 



in Bath Chronicle, Nov. 14th, and Animal World, Dec, 1901. 



A. L. Levris on the damage recently sustained, with plan and view 



from the west. A short paper in Man, Feb., 1901, pp. 24—26, advocating 

 the setting up of the leaning stones, and also of those now fallen of which 

 the position is accurately known, and the concreting of the rest. 



Old Times in Britain . . . for use on Bank 



Holidays. 8vo pamphlet, 19 pp., compiled by Mrs. (Eliz.) Gordon. 

 It consists of a selection of hj'mns, psalms, and passages of Scripture 

 accompanied by a running commentary, in which Stonehenge and Avebury 

 are described as sanctuaries of the Patriarchal religion, in which the True 

 God was vvoi'shippedby the Britons before the advent of tlie heathen Romans, 

 and supposed analogies and connections between the Druidical and Hebrew 

 systems are enlarged on. The illustrations are : a full-page bird's-eye view 

 of Avebury Eestored — a view, " Ambresbury or Amesbury," i.e., Stonehenge 

 as it is— A reproduction of one of Stukeley's views — and cuts of "Stonehenge 

 as it probably was," "Incense Cup from Bulford," " Sections of Barrows." 



As it was and is. By Lady Antrobus. Country Life 

 Illustrated, June 1st, 1901, pp. 677—680, with a reproduction of the 

 quaint old cut in Speed's Atlas, published 1626, and five admirable process 

 views: A General View — The Stones which fell December 31st, 1900 — 

 The Hele and Slaughter Stones— Sir Norman liockyer at Work— and 

 Looking out towards the Hele Stone. The letterpress gives some account 

 of the structure and of Sir Norman Lockyer's theory as to its age — and 

 desci-ibes the measures of preservation proposed to be taken. 



— The Incised Markings. Under the heading "an unobserved 

 symbol at Stonehenge," the Daily Grajphic, Oct. 12th, 1301, gives a cut 

 from a rubbing of the markings by Mr. G. E. Eobinson, accompanying a 

 letter by Mr. T. H. Thomas, in which he assumes that these well-known 

 markings have been hitherto " unpublished." 



— The Enclosure and Right of Public Access. 



The question of the right of public access to the monument was raised in 

 consequence of the action of Sir Edmund Antrobus in surrounding the 

 circle with a barbed wire fence, in accordance with the recommendation of 

 the Committee of Archaeological Societies, whose advice he sought. A charge 

 of 1*. for entrance was also made — the societies consulted had made no 

 recommendation as to this. The subject was debated in a great number of 

 lettei-s in The Times and other London papers in October and November, 

 1901. The Times had a long article on the subject advocating the 

 importance of public rights of access to national monuments ; reprinted in 

 Wilts County Mirror, Oct. 11th, 1901. A letter in this sense from Prof. 



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