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Rough stone monuments and their builders (1912)

Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric), 1882-1934 · London, New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 37

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Fig. I. Plan of Stonehenge in 1901. (After Arckaologia.)The dotted stones are of porphyritic diabase. There was an outer circle of about thirty workedupright stones of square section (Fig. 1). On eachpair of these rested a horizontal block, but only 16 … ENGLAND AND WALES five now remain in position. These lintels prob-ably formed a continuous architrave (PI. I). Thediameter of this outer circle is about 97J feet,inner measurement. The stones used are sarsensor blocks of sandstone, such as are to be foundtying about in many parts of the district…

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