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plans are extremely accurate pieces of work. The originals have been 

 deposited by Mr. Petrie in the British Museum. He considers that 

 Stonehenge is of a " mixed date " — the earth-circle being the oldest portion ; 

 and the blue-stones the latest additions. It is also thought probable that 

 the work was never completed. 



Petrie, Prof. W. M. P. 1884. Mechanical Methods of the 

 Ancient Egyptians. Jowm. Anthropol. Inst., XIII., 88 — 109; 

 with one plate. 



Hard stones were cut by jewels (diamond or corundum) set in bronze saws 

 or chisels ; and the blocks were then hammer-dressed. " Their method of 

 raising immense blocks [of stone] is not known, except by inference. 

 Considering that undoubtedly the easiest way would be by rocking the 

 block, and so alternately raising two piles near the middle of it, and that 

 Herodotus says that machines composed of short pieces of wood were used, 

 there is little reason to doubt this explanation given by Howard Vyse." 



■ 1891. Tell el Hesy [Lachish] ; 4to., 62 pp. ; illustrated : 



London. 



Distinguishes three ancient styles of masonry in Palestine. "The first 

 style, which we may call the Phoenician, is that of flaking and pocking." 

 By "pocking" is meant bruising down the surface of the stone with a 

 heavy pointed hammer. " The same pock-dressing is that of the wrought 

 stones at Stonehenge ; the best examples of it are on the flat tops of the 

 uprights of the great trilithons. And another curious formation occurs 

 there as well as at Hagar Kim (a temple in Malta, possibly Phu'iiician) ; 

 the edge of an upright is somewhat raised, so as to form a sort of tray, 

 and a corresponding cutting is made in the capstone. This is of course in 

 addition to the rough tenons at Stonehenge." 



1901. Stonehenge. Times, 18 Feb., p. 8. 



Urges a thorough exploration of the site, combined with a moderate amount 

 of restoration and concreting. But the work must be done under competent 

 and constant supervision. 



1901. Stonehenge. Times, 12 Oct., p. 12. 



Objects to the enclosure of Stonehenge. 



Pettigrew, T. J. [1791 — 1865] : Surgeon and antiquary. 

 1859. Antiquities of Wilts. Joum. Brit. Archaol. Assoc., 

 XV., 1—26. 



Stonohengo occupies pp. ."> — '.». 



Phelps, Rev. A. W. : Vicar of Amesbv/ry* 

 IS'.)'.!. Stonehenge. T inn's, 17 Sept., p. 12. 



The great leaning stone behind the altar does not quite touch the small 

 (grooved) bluo-btono pillar against which it appears to rest. 



