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Bibliography of Stonehengt and Arthur;!. 



Anon, 1899. [•■ Stonehenge."] Daily Chronicle] August 23 to W. 

 L899. Stonehenge, etc Punch, 30 Aug., pp. 100 — 101. 



A humorous article and illustration called forth by the announcement in 

 tli« i Timet that •• Stonehenge is for sale.'" The cut shows the famous 

 stone-circle converted into a switch-hack railway ; while the threat 

 trilithons form admirable arbours for " U-a and shrimps," etc. 



[Edited by Prof B. C A. Windle | L899. Murray)* 

 1 1 a\ i'i;ui .K i<»i; Wilts am» I><>i;skt: Fifth Edition : 8vo.,xlvii| 

 712. London. 



Stonehenge occupies pp. '291 —HOI. and Avehury pp. 87 — 97. There are 

 good maps, plans, etc. 



L899. Stonehenge. Illust. London News, 2 Sept, p. 318| 



A view of the monument from the N.E. An accompanying paragraph 

 remarks that " Stonehenge is a fixture, if ever there was one. Its removal 

 would destroy its history and its mystery ... It is part of tin- 

 landscape or it is nothing." 



L899. The Tin Trade of Prehistoric Europe. Nature', 



L.Y, 596. 



Salomon Heinach (/'A nt/iroj>oh><fir, X., ;>97) remarks that 1000 B.C. there 

 w as sin overland trade hetween Britain and Greece : the tin from the 

 •• Cassiterides " being exchanged for amber and bron/e objects such as arc 

 found in the Wiltshire barrows. Midas, of Phrygia (the inventor of the 

 anchor) discovered a sea-route, and was the first to bring tin and lead by 

 sea from Britain to Greece, about SOO B.C. Afterwards the rhu-nicians 

 got possession of this north-west route by sea. 



|" F. R. A. S." | L899. Stonehenge. Enyli&lk Mechanic 



[17 N..V.]. L.W.. 314 



•• If the orientation of the so-called •' pointer stone " lias been jiceurately 

 ascertained, and it was originally so placed at the time of its erection as 

 t .» mark the precise point of sunrise at the Summer Solstice, it would be 

 bv no means a dillicult task to compute the amount of shift. and hence to fix 

 tin- date at which the wonderful structure of which it forms an Integra] 

 part was s,-t up." 



| Our Special Correspondent 1899 Stonehenge 



KOK Sa I K. Ihiihf \> trs, I Si»pt., [». S. 



Values the land round Stonehenge at l'ti per acre, independently of the 

 monument. The late ^ir I . Antrobus third baronet would not sell tho 

 property at any price. " so the Government boundary of land purchased 

 for military purposes had to be drawn across Durrington Down, more 

 than a mile north of the Druid'* temple.' 



