STONEHENGE.
The mystery of Stonehenge- deepens. During the excavation of a circular ditch of considerable extent, there was found a series G f strange crater-like depressions, separated from each other by solid walls of chalk, and sometimes pierced by a gangway showing abundant signs of having been used by man.
In these craters were a number of flint implements, and scanty remains of ancient hearths. Near the ditch were numerous, post-holes, in which, apparently; timber at one time stood. In some cases these holes followed the course of furrows cut into the underlying chalk, suggesting the existence here at one time of stockaded passages Equally mysterious was the unearthing of a place where the ground was honeycombed with post-holes, which at one time, probably, supported a roof. Colonel Hawley, who is investigating Stonehenge- for the Society of Antiquaries of London, is of opinion that these wooden structures were definitely older than any of the standing stones.
The Hint instruments found in the ditch are of Neolithic forms, but approximate more closely to those in use in more ancient. Upper Palaeolitic times.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 11
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