18 Recent Excavations at Stonehcnge. 



different character from that on the opposite side of the monolith. 

 The chalk rock was found to have been entirely dug away and 

 removed for a distance of at least 6 feet from the base of the stone, 

 and to a depth of 7 feet at the west corner of the excavation, and 

 of 11 feet at the south-east end. Why this was done it is difficult 

 to conjecture. 



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The material filling the cavity consisted in the upper layers of 

 chalk rubble more or less mixed with mould, and in the lower 

 layers of white chalk rubble, but there was no distinct line of 



