Revieics — Recent Excavations at Stonchcnge. 129 



Eingwood " ; also in the British Museum, Bloomsbury, and 

 Mr. C. H. Bead's " Descriptive Guide to the Stone Age." In this 

 Guide (an otherwise carefully written work) no provisional place 

 has been given to the eoliths before the palasoliths in the 

 classification, and the mention of these appears in the middle of the 

 Palaeolithic period ; this must lead to confusion. Mr. Read seems 

 impressed by the eoliths, and treats them most fairly, though it is 

 very unfortunate that, while all the other illustrations are well done, 

 the eoliths at p. 37 show in their drawing only feeble evidence 

 of ' work.' Mr. Read, at p. 33, refers to the important collection 

 of Eolithic implements from Sir Joseph Prestwioh's collection in 

 the Natural History Branch of the British Museum at South 

 Kensington. This should be carefully studied as additional 

 illustrations of the Stone Age. 



la IB "V I IB -w S. 



I. — Recent Excavations at Stonehenge, communicated to the 

 Society of Antiquaries by William Gowland, Esq., F.S.A., 

 F.L.S., etc. With a Note on the Nature and Origin of the 

 Rock-fragments found in the Excavations, by Professor J. W. 

 JuDD, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 4to ; 93 pages, with 4 plates 

 and 29 text-figures. Printed by J. B. Nicols & Sons, Victoria 

 Street, Westminster, 1902. 



THE Antiquary and the Geologist have individually for many 

 yeai's past published their observations on Stonehenge, and 

 their notions about its origin and structure ; but now, in actual 

 co-operation, they have united to give a real description and sound 

 opinion of this venerable monolithic monument of ancient labour 

 and intelligence. With the consent and generous help of the Owner, 

 the valuable assistance of willing experts, and the utilization of any 

 useful information from among the already published notes, a great 

 mass of authentic particulars has been thus collected and arranged 

 to a good purpose. 



The descriptive text (forming part of the Society of Antiquaries' 

 Archasologia for 1902) is admirably printed, with numerous illus- 

 trations, several of which are produced from excellent photographs 

 taken during the operations and kindly lent by a lady of the 

 neighbourhood. Every stage of the excavations made around the 

 foot of the prominent and well-known ' leaning stone,' which had 

 to be restored to its original vertical position, as it was when a part 

 of the chief Trilithon, has been described and figured in detail. 

 Thus one of the chief objects of this important engineering under- 

 taking has been carefully worked out. Another object to be 

 attained was the realization of some definite history of the great 

 standing stones of Stonehenge, as far as the relative number, position, 

 and characters of the blocks and chips of the various kinds of stone 

 got from the diggings can prove anything as to the cause, method, 

 and time of their irabedmeut in the subsoil. 



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