108 The Thirty-third General Meeting. 
archeology and antiquities, and as the monument was in Wiltshire 
it was considered that the Wiltshire Archeological Society was 
responsible for the condition in which it was. In drawing up their 
report they were greatly aided by Mr. Cunnington’s carefully- 
prepared plan in his small book, which was an admirable companion 
for the visitor to Stonehenge, and in which plan every single stone was 
lettered and numbered. He thought hardly sufficient had been said in 
the report about the depredations of the rabbits, for he was astonished 
to see what an enormous amount of mischief rabbits coulddo. Round 
the actual stones some efforts had been made, by digging them out 
and stopping up their holes, to prevent the mischief, but in the 
immediate contiguity of Stonehenge there were a number of barrows, 
and some of them had been literally turned inside out by rabbits, they 
were honeycombed through and through, and their contents scattered 
around, till they looked more like heaps of chalk and flint than old 
barrows covered with the ancient and pristine turf of the district. 
Something had been done he knew to protect Stonehenge. There 
was a caretaker, but there was very little evidence of any care being 
taken. There was an innumerable quantity of broken bottles there, 
and many of the stones had been made a “ cock-shy ” of by those 
pic-nicing there. There was also any amount of straw blowing 
about, owing to horses being tethered and littered among the stones, 
which was very unsightly. Nearly all this would be done away 
with by a sunk fence at a considerable distance round. It would 
cost money, but Stonehengewas a relic worth taking every possible care 
of. At any rate, if their report was adopted, he thought they would 
have done as much as they could do at the present time to meet the 
charges made against the Society, and against the county generally. 
Mr. W. Cunniveron testified to the enormously increased numbers 
of people who visited Stonehenge as compared with former times, 
so that the mischief was continuing and increasing. The injuries, 
however slight, are irreparable, and they are constantly accumulating. 
On the longest day hundreds always came to witness the sunrise from 
the altar stone, though it was impossible for more than a very few 
persons to see it from that point, and the majority spent a miserable 
night, as he could say from experience. Much damage was done by 
