Recent Wiltshire Books, Articles, &c. 123 



to purchase the monument. An article in Tfie Field, also approving of 

 the judgment, is reproduced in Wilts County Mirror, Aprfl 28th. The 

 Times, in printing a full report of Mr. Justice Farwell's judgment in its 

 issue of April 20th, gave a plan of Stonehenge, showing the tracks in 

 dispute. The same issue contained a long leading article regretting the 

 decision on the ground of its important bearing on all similar cases, and 

 advocating the acquisition of Stonehenge by the nation. " What is 

 really needed is that Stonehenge should be placed in public custody. 

 Much fuller protective measures could then be taken without objection, 

 for proper restrictions would no longer be adverse to the public interest." 

 Letters on the subject appeared in The Times, April 16th and 29th. 



Stonehengfe. The Justice of the Peace, quoted in Wilts County Mirror, 

 Maj' 26th, 1905, had an article reviewing the decision of Mr. Justice 

 Farwell and approving it. "If their object (j.e., the promoters of the 

 suit) was to preserve Stonehenge, it was certainly a curious waj' to set 

 about it. To give the public an indiscriminate right to wander about 

 the monument as they pleased was scarcely the best means of preventing 

 harm from being done. Fortunately, we think, for posterity, the judge 

 was not satisfied that the existence of such roads was proved." 



" Its relative position with regard to other ancient works," by Joseph 



Houghton Spencer. Article in Antiquary, April, 1905, Vol. I , New 

 Series, pp. 144- 5. The fact noticed by Sir Norman Lockyer that a line 

 drawn through the axis of the circle cuts Sidbury Camp, six miles to the 

 N.-East, and Groveley Castle the same distance to the S.-West, has 

 induced the author to prolong the S.W. line, with the result that he finds 

 that it cuts Castle Ditches, the Old Castle at Wardour. passes near several 

 high points, through a camp inCerne Park, near one or two British villages 

 and tumuli, until it reaches Higher Combe, near Chilcombe Hill, forty- 

 eight miles distant, where it crosses the line from Weymouth Bay to 

 Porlock Bay, which passes through Castle Neroche and is derived from 

 the setting sun at the summer solstice and upon which line the " Monks' 

 Walk," Corfe, is situated. At Higher Combe, also, is a third line coming 

 from one of eight radiating drives in Melbury Park, near Evershot. It 

 is seriously suggested that these lines mean something, though what is 

 not quite apparent. One wonders what would be the result if the lines 

 meeting at the junction of the transepts and nave of Westminster Abbey 

 were prolonged " until they reach the sea," and what material for 

 interesting theories they would provide. 



" Ballooning over Stonehenge." Article by Rev. J. M. Bacon in 



Good Words, Nov., 1902, p. 783, illustrated. 



" Round and about Stonehenge." By H. GriflSn Stanway. Article 



in Uoyds' Bank Magazine, No. 3, Sept., 1903, pp. 219—223. 



"Historic Monuments of Britain. VI. — Stonehenge." Article by 



M. Venables, illust., in Pearson's Mag., December, 1904, pp. 596—602. 

 Illustrations : — [Headpiece, General View of Stones] ; One of the 



