10 Recent Excavations at Stonehenge. 



Excavation I. — Figs. 2, 3, and 3a, 



Immediately beneath the turf and intermingled with its roots, 

 chips and fragments of flint were very abundant, and in addition 

 to these, especially near the monolith, there were considerable 

 quantities of clay -pipe stems, pieces of broken crockery, bottles 

 and glasses, together with pins, buttons, and other rubbish of more 

 or less recent date. This was also the case in all the excavations 

 around the stone. In the other layers, chippings and pieces of all 

 the rocks of which the stones consist were very numerous, those 

 of the " bluestones " being in excess of those of the sarsens, diabase 

 predominating. 



Chippings of the "bluestones" and of sarsen occurred together 



