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Title: Stonehenge
Today and Yesterday

Author: Frank Stevens

Illustrator: Heywood Sumner

Release Date: August 27, 2006 [EBook #19130]

Language: English

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STONEHENGE:

TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY

[Illustration: Stonehenge
as it probably was. Plan & Bird'seye View.]

STONEHENGE
TODAY & YESTERDAY

BY

FRANK STEVENS

Curator of the Salisbury Museum
with Plans and Illustrations by

HEYWOOD SUMNER. F.S.A.

[Illustration]

LONDON:
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd
Price 1s net
1916.

FOREWORD

The interest that has always attached itself to Stonehenge has,
without doubt, been in a great measure due to the mystery as to the
origin of this unique monument of bygone time. But the careful
investigations carried out by the modern school of archaeologists, as
instanced in the work of General Pitt Rivers, Mr. Gowland, and others,
every excavation being carried out with great care and scientific
accuracy, have had good results; little by little the history of
Stonehenge has been unravelled; a fact that Mr. Stevens has clearly
demonstrated in the present volume. We now know how, when, and who,
built this remarkable temple. One point, however,