THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



MULTOETTM MANIBUS GBANDE LEVATUE ONUS." — Ovid. 



June, 1903. 



By William Gowland, F.S.A. F.I.C., 



Associate of the Koyal School of Mines; with a 



Note on tlje Nature anti ©rtgm of tlje BocMragments 

 fouttti in tije feeabattotts. 



By Peofessor J. W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S. 

 ^^gHE fall of two of the stones of the outer circle of Stonehenge, 



MH No - 22 and ifcs linte1 ' No> 122 ' 2 on the last day of the 



century, directed the attention of the public, and especially of 

 archaeologists, in a very forcible manner to the insecure position of 

 other stones in this venerable monument. At a meeting of the 

 Council of the Society of Antiquaries soon afterwards a resolution 

 was passed and sent to Sir Edmund Antrobus, the owner of 

 Stonehenge, expressing their desire to co-operate with him in any 

 operations which might be advisable for its preservation. Sir 



1 This paper was read in part before the Society of Antiquaries on December 

 19th, 1901, and before our own Society at the Chippenham Meeting, July 

 15th, 1902. It is printed in Archceologia, vol. LVIIL, pp. 1—82. For the 

 kind loan of the blocks for the illustrations and plans here given our Society 

 is indebted to the Council of the Society of Antiquaries.— [Ed.] 



2 See General Plan. This plan is based partly on that given in Professor 

 W. M. Flinders Petrie's Stonehenge: Plans, Descriptions, and Theories 

 (London, 1880), and partly on my own surveys made after the "leaning 

 stone " t had been set upright. 



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