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Short Notes. 
an altar stone to the temple, but to the single obeliscal stone or Bethyle ; 
at all events from the methodical position of it, it is worthy of being raised ; 
for if it had been originally erect! there might be a possibility of its being 
laid prostrate for some sepulchral purpose; and therefore some funereal 
relics might be found under it Pye iat 
James Douglas to Mr. Cunnington, March 16th, 1810 :— 
“In page 131 of my Nenia I made a very incautious and unhandsome 
remark on the father of our British antiquities, the learned and ingenious 
Dr. Stukeley ; for whose memory I entertain a great regard, notwithstanding 
the fastidious criticism of many superficial modern antiquaries. It was on 
a Barrow which -my imprudent remark was hazarded, north of Stonehenge 
in the group south of the cursus. What he calls a double barrow, one of 
which contained the skeleton of a man, and the smaller one, the urn, burnt 
bones, and a considerable number of beads and other articles of a young 
female, which he engraved in Pl. xxxii. of his Stonehenge, now before me. 
The relics in question, which I had never seen but by the engraving, made 
me incautiously apply them to the order of my lower barrows; in which, 
having found beads of glass and amber of the shape he described, inclined 
me to suppose them of a coeval date; but by the same kind of beads in your 
possession of the “pully” fashion and the verditer opaque glass which I 
saw, I have no doubt now, of their British period, of a high date, and which 
the bronze spear head found in the same barrow ought to have convinced 
me of. You thus perceive, my dear Sir, that error is the common fate of 
short-sighted man.” 
[The beads of “ pully” fashion, mentioned above, are the long notched 
glass beads of which we have several in the Museum.—Ep.] 
Stonehenge. Excavations at, 1801. The following passage occurs in a 
letter from Mr. Cunnington to Mr. Leman, of Bath, dated Heytesbury, 
1801 :—“I have this summer dug in several places in the area and neigh- 
bourhood of Stonehenge and particularly at the foot of the ‘altar,’ where I 
dug to the depth of five feet or more, and found charred wood, animal 
bones and pottery, of the latter there were several pieces similar to the 
rude urns found in the Barrows, also some pieces of Roman pottery. In 
several places I found stag’s horns.” 
W. Cunnineron, 
Stonehenge. It appears that the mystery which has so long surrounded 
Stonehenge has been solved at Jast! So at least says “ Dr. Berks Hutchinson, 
of Cape Town, S. Africa,” who advertises in the Southampton Observer of 
April 3rd, 1897, a Stonehenge Exhibition at 69, Waterloo Place, Southamp- 
ton, admission one shilling, in which all “Archzologists, Freemasons, 
Master Mariners, Astronomers, &c., will find food for reflection.” ‘‘ Stone- 
henge is a veritable relic of an ancient British Royal Arch (Israelitish) 
1 Mr. Cunnington’s answer to this part of the letter is printed in Wilts Arch, 
Magq., xxiv., 129. 
