Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9293
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“Stonehenge. Trilithon (B) on the left of the altar stone”
Date
1867
Creator
Henry James (1803 - 1877, British) , Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey, Surveyor
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Dimensions
height (print): 239mm
width (print): 189mm
width (print): 189mm
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Description
Study of a trilith (posts and lintel) at Stonehenge, Wiltshire. A Victorian gentleman carrying an umbrella and notebook stands in front of the megalithic structure to indicate scale.
Captioned below: “STONEHENGE. TRILITHON (B) ON THE LEFT OF THE ALTAR STONE. Photographed by the Ordnance Survey Department, Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:F.R.S.:&c. Director. 1867.”
Photographic plate 5 from Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland, by Colonel Sir Henry James. (Southampton, Ordnance Survey, 1867).
Captioned below: “STONEHENGE. TRILITHON (B) ON THE LEFT OF THE ALTAR STONE. Photographed by the Ordnance Survey Department, Colonel Sir Henry James R.E.:F.R.S.:&c. Director. 1867.”
Photographic plate 5 from Plans and photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Isle of Lewes; with notes relating to the druids and sketches of cromlechs in Ireland, by Colonel Sir Henry James. (Southampton, Ordnance Survey, 1867).
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