Archæology of Stonehenge

Abstract

MR. STONE is to be congratulated on having written a book which has long been wanted for giving a good up-to-date description of Stonehenge. He has gone very thoroughly into the subject, viewing it from all points, describing the arrangement of the stones, their source and geological nature; also a great many little items of particular interest which the monument and the site afford, and they are very well illustrated by photographs and drawings. Being a civil engineer and of much experience, his profession has taken him to places and amongst primitive people where he was able to note ways and means of working stones analogous to those at Stonehenge, so he is well qualified to give a description. This will be seen in the chapter on quarrying, where he mentions and illustrates methods in use in India comparable with those employed by neolithic man, and a stone maul can be seen in one photograph which is identical with those found at Stonehenge.

The Stones of Stonehenge: a Full Description of the Structure and of its Outworks.

By E. Herbert Stone. Pp. xv + 150 + 36 plates. (London: Robert Scott, 1924.) 21s. net.