362 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, mcd Articles. 



"a drawing in a manuscript book now in the British Museum, bearing 

 date 1588 and numbered SI [Sloane] 2596. It is called "The 

 Particular Description of Ejigland, with the Portraitures of certaine 

 of the Chieffeste Citties and Townes, and was written by W. Smith, 

 Eouge Dragon, who is stated to have died in 1618." " Camden is said 

 to have copied a drawing of Stonehenge signed ' R. F. 1575.' This 

 drawing I have not seen but it is reasonable to suppose that the plate in 

 the 1607 and 1610 editions of his Britannia which I have seen is copied 

 from or founded upon it." Mr. Lewis compares the drawing of 1588 and 

 the plates in the 1607 and 1610 editions of Camden, and believes that he 

 identifies the leaning stone in both, and concludes thus : " The fact . . . 

 shows that it is the leaning stone and not any other that appears in 

 Smith's view of 1588, and that, instead of the fall of the great trilithon 

 having been caused by the work of the Duke of Buckingham in 1620, it 

 had certainly fallen some time before 1588, and probably before 1575." 



StOUeliengfe. in the same number of Man, the same author, "A. L. L.," 

 gives an appreciative notice of the Stonehenge Bibliography Number of 

 the Wilts Arch. Mag.: — "The valuable publications of the Wiltshire 

 Archaeological andNaturalHistory Society respecting the world-renowned 

 monuments of that county have now been increased by the addition of 

 a very exhaustive bibliography by Mr. Jerome Harrison, who has spared 

 no effort to make it complete. ... It will be much valued by all 

 interested in rude stone monuments." Mr. Harrison believed that he 

 identified five trilithons as still standing in the drawing of 1588, but 

 Mr. Lewis contends that in this he is wrong. 



Stonehenge, 1901. An article by Lady Antrobus in Country Life, 

 Oct. 19th, 1901, pp. 485—487. The process of raising the leaning 

 stone is shortly described, with isix excellent explanatory photo- 

 graphs — Sifting Earth and Chalk — View of Apparatus — Leaning Stone 

 as it was— Cradle for Stone — The Staging — An Important Operation. 

 These illustrations are valuable as showing exactly the method employed 

 . both in the excavations and in the actual raising of the stone. An 

 excellent portrait of Dr. Gowland, who superintended the operations, 

 appears in one of the views. 



Stonehenge : the Controversy as to the Enclosure. 



The controversy as to the right of access to Stonehenge still continued 

 in the papers during 1902 from time to time. 



On May 15th the Devizes Gazette printed a memorandum from the 

 minutes of the Charities and Records Committee of the "Wilts County 

 Council, recording a communication received from the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, to the effect that it would be 

 " entirely out of the question for the Government under present circum- 

 stances to become the purchasers of Stonehenge," but that if Sir Edmund 

 Antrobus could be induced to name a reasonable figure, and if the County 

 of Wilts could raise the greater part of the amount, it might be possible 

 for the Government to come to the assistance of the county. 



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