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must be provided for "the numberless human victims whom they imag- 

 ine were slain there." Mr. Gowland, who minutely examined the stone 

 in 1901, believes that the oval indentations referred to are more recent 

 than the building of Stonehenge. His opinion was based on the theory 

 that "had they been contemporaneous with the trilithons, the action of 

 the water in the holes, combined with the frost, would have caused a 



Fig. 84. — Construction of one of the trilithons of the 

 outer horseshoe of the "temple" of Stonehenge. Draw- 

 ing by the author. 



very much greater amount of disintegration than exists today." On 

 the other hand, at a meeting of the British Archaeological Association 

 in 1880, at which time a visit was paid to Stonehenge, and "there were, 

 as is usual at such gatherings, papers and discussions dealing with it, 

 Mr. William Cunningham, F. S. A., especially put on record the fact 

 that his grandfather, Mr. H. Cunningham, and Sir R. C. Hoare, re- 

 membered this stone as standing erect." 



