By Mrs. M. E. Cunnington. 7 



The society is greatly indebted to Mr. George Brown, of 

 Beckhampton, on whoRe land the stone stands, for his permission 

 to raise it, and for the kindness and forbearance with which he 

 accepted the inconvenience attendant on the operation. The 

 length of time that the work was about, the trampling of visitois 

 and others through the hedge and the serious interruption to the 

 farming of the land, made no slight call on his patience and good 

 nature. The Society are also grateful to Mr. Brown for his in- 

 tention not to disturb or cultivate the ground immediately round 

 the stone in the future. 



THE KENNET AVENUE STONE. 



While the work of raising the big stone at Longstone Cove was 

 in preparation, it was suggested that, while the necessary apparatus 

 was on the ground, it would be a good opportunity to raise 

 the stone in the Kennet avenue that fell cir. 1889 (?), and this 

 course was ultimately decided upon at a committee meeting of the 

 Society in July, 1912. This stone is the third from the Avebury 

 end of the line of seven stones on the east side of the avenue, in 

 the group of eleven stones lying west of the road between Avebury 

 and Kennet and is opposite to the only one of the group which still 

 remained standing. The ground has been under the plough within 

 the last few years, and the cavity made by the fall of the stone had 

 been filled up and levelled off. On re-excavating this it was found 

 that the hole as originally made to receive the stone was not so well 

 defined as in the. case of that at Longstone Cove, where it had been 

 dug into the solid chalk, for the base of the Kennet stone stood on a 

 bed of chalk rubble at a depth of only 16in. below the surface. It 

 was felt that there could be no certainty that this rubble had not 

 been disturbed, and in view of the possibility of an interment having 

 been made under the stone, the digging .was continued down until 

 the solid chalk was reached at a depth of 4ft. Gin. from the surface. 

 The depth of the rubble over the chalk varies considerably even in a 

 small area, but as this seemed a greater depth than is usual, a hole 

 was dug some yards away from thestone to test it there/and the same 



