We agree that if the owner will be content with
a reas version by purchase of the Daily .Netcs from Anti-Boer to sonable _price, the State should purchase. The atones
are quite close to the Salisbury Plain military area, and might easily be bought and thrown into it, for the soldiers not only would not injure the stones, but would be vigilant guardians. As to deepening the vellum, we must withhold a positive opinion till better advised, but if anything is done in the way of digging out the ditch, it must be done under the strictest antiquarian supervision. The secret of the date of Stonehenge almost certainly lies buried in that ditch. If Roman pottery is found at the very bottom of the ditch, then Stonehenge is probably of the Roman or post-Roman period. If there are Roman traces only at the top, and earlier remains below, then Stonehenge, granting the ditch is contemporary with the circle, must be earlier than the Roman invasion.
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