76 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



publication. They are : — (View showing the leaning stone) — " General 

 View — Starting for Excavating with Kopes Strained — Cutting the Soil in 

 Sections 1 foot square 6 inches deep — Sifting Soil through four different 

 meshes down to ^inch size — Side Elevation of the Leaning Stone— East 

 View of the Leaning Stone— The Leaning Stone Upright — The Frame 

 for Eegistering the Finds — Exposed Surface of Base of Pillar, 8 feet below 

 ground, showing the high finish of the work. — The Base of the Pillar, 

 8 feet 6 inches under ground, showing surface of stone — Hammers — 

 Flints for cutting softer Stones." 



Mr. Blow gives a short account of the history of Stonehenge. This is 

 followed by a report of the discussion which followed, in which Sir 

 Norman Lockyer and Mr. F. C. Penrose give their reasons for fixing 

 the approximate date of the erection at 1680 B.C. — Mr. W. H. St. John 

 Hope speaks of the date and the method of working the stones — and Mr. 

 Emmanuel Green deprecates the idea that the date arrived at by Sir 

 Norman Lockyer should be considered as a final solution of the question. 

 Pages 137 — 142 are occupied with a reprint (in full) from the Proceedings 

 of the Boyal Society, Vol. lxix., No. 452, 19th Nov., 1901, of Sir Norman 

 Lockyer's paper, "An attempt to ascertain the date of the original 

 construction of Stonehenge from its orientation," by Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., and F. C. Penrose, F.B.S. 



Stonehenge. 



Devizes Gazette, Nov. 20th, 1902. At a meeting of the Wilts County 

 Council, Nov. 19th, 1902, the chairman, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, 

 reported that he had been in communication with Sir Edmund Antrobus 

 as to the possibilty of the purchase and control of Stonehenge by some 

 public body. Circumstances had arisen, however, which prevented Sir 

 Edmund from making any definite proposal at present, but he quite 

 hoped that he would be able to do so at the February meeting of the 

 Council. 



A meeting of the Stonehenge Committee was held at the Society of 

 Antiquaries on Nov. 12th, 1902, nine members representing the three 

 societies represented by the committee being present. It was decided 

 to recommend to Sir Edmund Antrobus the erection of temporary 

 wooden props against those stones which are most in danger of falling 

 in the winter gales. The committee recorded their approval of the steps 

 already been taken for the preservation of the monument and their 

 hope that the other stones now out of the perpendicular and in danger 

 of falling may be thoroughly concreted at the base, as the stone formerly 

 leaning had already been. 



The committee of the National Trust, at their annual meeting on 

 Nov. 17th, 1902, in their report reiterated their objections to the enclosure, 

 and their opinion that the monument ought to become the property of 

 some public body. 



Devizes Gazette, Dec. 4th, 1902, refers to a letter from Mr. Shaw Lefevre 

 in which he maintains that ^6125, 000 was the price asked by Sir Edmund 



