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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. x. 



eludes another, and therefore is evidently of later date 

 than some of the barrows of the district. A foreign 



FIG. 144. Stonehenge as it probably was. (Brown.) 



block near the first great trilithon, on the north-eastern 

 side, has two holes in it (Fig. 145A), which, in the opinion 

 of Mr. Stevens, have probably been intended to receive 

 libations like the elf-stones and cup-stones described in 

 the last chapter. The present ruined condition of Stone- 

 henge is represented in Fig. 145A, borrowed from the 

 work of Mr. Stevens. 



The foreign stones, composing the inner circle and 

 the inner apse, some of which are igneous, may have been 

 derived from Wales, Cornwall, or from the Channel 

 Islands. It is obvious that they would not have been 

 transported to Salisbury Plain excepting under the influ- 



