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around it. In succeeding years Mr. Thomas Davies carried these 

 important investigations still farther by the study of specimens 

 sent to him from time to time by Mr. William Cunnington. 



On July 8th, 1881, no less than' 172 chips of stone were obtained 

 by Mr. Cunnington from three small holes at Stonehenge. These 

 when submitted to Mr. Thomas Davies were classified by him as 

 follows : — 



Diabase - - - - 39 



In the paper in which this discovery is recorded, 1 it is mentioned 

 that Mr. H. Cunnington had found two stumps of stones, one of 

 diabase, and the other of schist, while the existence of buried bases 

 of other stones had been demonstrated by probings with a pointed 

 rod. Eock-fragments similar to those found within the enclosure 

 of Stonehenge were also collected from several barrows in the 

 vicinity. Some of the specimens, with sections from them, illus- 

 trating the fragments from Stonehenge which were examined by 

 Mr. Thomas Davies for Mr. William Cunnington, are still preserved 

 in the Mineralogical Department of the British (Natural History) 

 Museum at South Kensington. 



In 1893 Mr. William Cunnington submitted to Mr. Teall a 

 collection of sections made from fragments, which were collected 

 r mostly with rare exceptions, as noted, from under the turf within 

 the area of the building " at Stonehenge. The thirty-four slides 

 examined by Mr. Teall enabled him to class the rocks from which 



1 " Stonehenge Notes : The Fragments," by W. CunniDgton, Wilts Arch. 

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Felsite 



Quartzites with traces of felspar 

 Sarsen stone 



Calciferous chloritic schist 

 Micaceous sandstone (like altar-stone) 



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