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the great trilithons of local stone which complete 

 the edifice. 



All this, it appears, may now be regarded as 

 exploded, or at the least as most doubtful, for 

 Professor Judd thinks that there is no reason to 

 suppose that these " blue stones " might not have 

 been found on the Plain with the sarsens. They 

 must have been transported there, for they are 

 certainly foreign to the locality, but then there is 

 no reason why they might not have been brought 

 there as glacial drift, deposited and found ready 

 to their hands by the builders of Stonehenge. 



Turning next to the dressing of the stones, the 

 observations of Professor Gowland seem to make 

 it clear that this was accomplished almost entirely 

 by the use of stone implements. A certain amount 

 of the rough shaping may have been effected by 

 the use of fire and water, as we know has been the 

 case with monuments erected in our own times 

 by primitive races. But the final tooling seems to 

 have been carried out by means of flint axes and 

 large stone mauls made of the compact sarsen 

 stones met with on the Plain. Large quantities 

 of these implements were found in the course of 

 the excavations, indeed used-up axes and mauls 

 had been employed to pack the bases of the up- 

 right pillars in the holes dug for their reception. 

 Moreover, it was observed that the faces of all the 

 stones showed evidence of very careful tooling, 

 and this more especially where they had been 

 protected from the weather. That this tooling 

 was effected by means of quartzite hammers seems 

 to have been demonstrated by the fact that the 



