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large as the others ; and two strong boys 

 could together have rolled it over. I have 

 no doubt that it had been rolled over at a 

 moderately recent time, for it now lay at 

 some distance from the two other stones at 

 the bottom of a little adjoining slope. It 

 rested also on fine earth, instead of partly on 

 brick-rubbish. In agreement with this con- 

 clusion, the raised surrounding border of 

 turf was only 1 inch high in some parts, and 

 2 inches in other parts. There were no 

 colonies of ants beneath this stone, and on 

 digging a hole where it had lain, several 

 burrows and worms were found. 



At Stonehenge, some of the outer Druidical 

 stones are now prostrate, having fallen at a 

 remote but unknown period ; and these have 

 become buried to a moderate depth in the 

 ground. They are surrounded by sloping 

 borders of turf, on which recent castings were 

 seen. Close to one of these fallen stones, 

 which was 17 ft. long, 6 ft. broad, and 28 \ 

 inches thick, a hole was dug ; and here the 

 vegetable mould was at least 9^ inches in 

 thickness. At this depth a flint was found, 

 and a little higher up on one side of the hole 

 a fragment of glass. The base of the stone 



