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Three Grinding-Stones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

A. D. Lacaille
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In March 1961, while inducting Mr. Inigo Jones into the wardenship of the Fyfield Down National Nature Reserve, I showed him the cup-markings I had found in the preceding spring on a sarsen in Delling Penning, not far without the reserve but on the same Wiltshire high ground. Appreciating his interest in these recondite prehistoric sculpturings and in the published account thereon that followed my report to the Society of Antiquaries, I asked Mr. Jones to let me know of any comparable or other markings that might strike him while patrolling the downland as outside the range of natural pittings and scorings that occur on so many of the Grey Wethers.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , September 1963 , pp. 190 - 196
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1963

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