STONEHENGE
PRESENTED BY OWNERS TO THE NATION. Australian and N. 55. Cable Association. (Received September 25, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, September 24. The owners of Stonelienge have presented the historic structure to.tho nation. Stonelienge is the remains of a great prehistoric structni'o in England, in Wiltshire, on Salisbury Plains, nine miles north-north-west of Salisbury. It consists mainly of a circlo of vast stones (nearly half of them now prostrate), averaging about 14ft in elevation, ,which originally supported and were joined by horizontal stones, of a number of iiiach smaller stones (originally forming an inner circle) and of several pairs of huge stone columns arranged elliptically within the inner circle. This, tho" largest of British megalithic monuments, is generally supposed to date from the Bronze Age.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10085, 26 September 1918, Page 6
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