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IX. Account of the Fall of some of the Stones of Stonehenge, in a Letter from William George Maton, M.B. F.A.S. to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

William George Maton
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Extract

Having lately had more leisure to make remarks on the alteration produced in the aspect of Stonehenge, by the fall of some of the stones in January last, than when I first visited the spot for this purpose, I am anxious to lay before the Antiquarian Society a more full and correct account of it than that which you did me the honour to transmit to them before.

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Archaeologia , Volume 13 , 1800 , pp. 103 - 106
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1800

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page 104 note [a] Marked b in Smith's Choir-Gaur. This trilithon might, with great propriety, be called the westorn, as one of the others stood more nearly west of the center cf the structure.

page 104 note [b] This is a siliceous grit, of rather a loose texture, and of a dull whitish colour, with veins of brown, which seem to be occasioned by the oxydation of the iron contoined in it. All the stones of the great oval, and most of those of the outer circle, consist ot this species of rock.