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1854. T. Eupert Jones, in a lecture on the Geology of Newbury, 

 treated of the occurrence of "the great blocks of Druiilstone, 

 ■Grey wethers, or Sarsen-stones as the onhj remaining wreck of the 

 Lower Tertiaries of this area" ; and further broken up in the gravel 

 of the vicinity. 



1869. J. Adams, in a lecture on the Geology of Newbury 

 (newspaper, December, 1869), referred to a traditional trace of an 

 ancient cromlech near Hangmanstone, for people say that there 

 was a cave made of large stones, but it was pulled to pieces by 

 the farmer. 



1869. The Sarsens of Berkshire now existing as relics of pre- 

 historic monuments, especially in Wayland Smith's Cave, and the 

 groups in Ashdown Park, are the subject of a paper by Mr. A. L. 

 Lewis in the Trans. Internat. Congress of Prehistoric Archseol. at 

 Norwich, 1869, pp. 37-46. See also Fergusson's '• Rude Stone 

 Monuments," 1872, pp. 121, etc. 



1887. Mr. Walter Money, F.S.A., referring to Sarsen Stones 

 in letters, notes that a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 1760 mentions that two Roman milliaria or milestones were to be 

 seen near Aldworth ; and this statement is confirmed by Hearne, 

 Rows Mores, and other authors. " These milliaria are now to be 

 seen" (says the writer in the Gent. Mag.) "between Streteley 

 and Alder, one of which lies a mile from Streteley, and by countrj' 

 people is supposed to be placed by the Giants (as they call them) in 

 Alder [Aldworth] Church." He refers to the monumental effigies of 

 the De la Beche family. A few years ago I investigated this subject 

 for the late Mr. Thompson Watkin, of Liverpool, and found that one 

 of these milliaria stood, not so many years ago, between Westridge 

 Farm (two miles from Streatley) and Aldworth, in a bank, and 

 that it was a large Sarsen Stone ; and another I heard of as being 

 seen in Kiddington Bottom, one mile west of Streatley. One of 

 these, I learned, had been broken up for road-metal, and the other 

 was said to have been taken away by a gentleman at Wallingford 

 to be placed on his lawn. 



Another statement is that many years ago the stone was taken 

 from its original position by the side of the Roman via from 

 Westridge to Streatley, and removed to a more convenient spot 

 about a quarter of a mile distant, where probably it still remains. 

 This stone, of Kisrantic size, was removed by the occupier of the 

 farm at Westridge with a team of eight horses. 



There is still a very large Sarsen Stone by the side of the Roman 

 way from Newbury to Streatley, between Ilainpstead Norris and 

 Aldworth, which was probably used as a milliarium. It is curious 

 that in Brittany and other places on the Continent, as well as m 

 England, where prehistoric stone structures are found, that^there 

 are stories of the imprints of giants' hands or feet, as the Friar's 

 Heel at Stonehenge ; and there is a story told at Aldworth at 

 the present day, that one of these milliaria (that in Ki.ldington 

 Bottom), between Aldworth and Streatley, had been thrown hitlior 

 by one of the Aldworth giants, and that the print of the giant s 



