144 Stonehenge Nofes : The Fragments. 



Of these there were in the earth round the — 

 Stump of the obelisk, No. 57. Stump of schist stone, No. 28. 



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A small piece of oolitic freestone, and two specimens closely re- 

 sembling' the Ujjper-Green-Sandsto7ie of Wiltshire have been dug up. 

 One of the latter contains foraminiferous shells, recognised by 

 Professor Rupert Jones as Textularia globulosa, (Ehrenberg,) and 

 other microscopic fossils. It is difficult to account for the presence 

 of these three fragments, but they can have no immediate connexion 

 ■with Stonehenge. 



The turf was taken up at about twenty feet within the vallum, 

 to the left of the entrance, but no specimens were discovered, and 

 here the soil was only from four to six inches in depth. Further on 

 in the same direction, and nearer the building, the fragments were 

 more numerous, including eight pieces of various felsites, some of them 

 more laminar in structure than others, three pieces of the soft schist, 

 the same as the stump of the stone found at S. 28 (see map) as men- 

 tioned above, p. 142, one of greenish diabase, one of grey diabase (un- 

 like the other specimens) ,a portion of the rim of an amber-coloured glass 

 cup or vase, described at p. 148, and several flint flakes. In another 

 hole dug close by, to the left, there were found two fragments of 



* Two varieties of this stone. 



' With very fresh-looking fractures. 



^ Apparently differing from the sarsens of the temple. 



* One of these is darker in colour than the altar stone, but this may have been 

 caused by exposure to smoke. 



* Besides the fragments mentioned at page 145 as having been found in or 

 attached to the concreted mass round the base of the obelisk. 



