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Re: "Countrytracks" climbs Silbury with Jim Leary ....
Jan 24, 2012, 12:36
VBB wrote:
tjj wrote:
Thanks VBB for your informed post .. I have just had a quick look in Rosemary Hill's very readable book on Stonehenge and there are some reproductions of pre (and early) 20th century images:

"Turner's watercolour view, engraved by Robert Wallis,1829. The shepherd lies dead in the storm, the sheep abandoned. For the Romatics the stones were predominantly a place of psychic dread and terror" This image shows a ruined Stonehenge. (Chapter 4)

There is also a photograph of about 1896 showing the fallen western trilithon and the timber supports propping the leaning stones.

There's a mid 17th century/19th cent/Great War images to compare here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge


The 1895 print of Stonehenge compared to the 2008 photograph taken from a similar position is quite revealing isn't it showing the renovation work carried out in the interim.

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