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VI.—Notes on Fossil Roots in the Sarsen Stones of Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

William Carruthers
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Having had placed in my hands by Prof. T. Rupert Jones (who has already communicated some notes on Sarsen Stones to your pages, Vols. for 1875 and 1876) some microscopic preparation of plant-remains found in Sarsen Stones from Wiltshire, belonging to Mr. Thos. Codrington, F.G.S., I would be glad to state in a sentence or two the results of my examination.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 8 , August 1885 , pp. 361 - 362
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1885

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page 362 note 1 In 1865 Mr. Thomas Codrington, C.E., F.G.S., described in a paper “On the Geology of the Berks and Hants Extension and Marlborough Railways,” in the “Magazine Wilts Archæol. Nat. Hist. Soc,” 1865, the occurrence of fossilized vegetable tissue in the pipe-like holes traversing some Sarsen Stones lying on the ground westward of Little Bedwin.Google ScholarIn the “Geological Magazine, new series, Vol.II, 1875 p. 589, Prof. Jones, Rupert, noticed some similar tubular cavities in the Sarsen Stones near Frimley, Surrey, and in other geological formations;Google Scholarand in Geol. Mag., new series, Vol.III. 1876, p. 523 he described similar vegetable marks in the Greywethers or Sarsens of the Chalk Downs near Marlborough, and particularly in the enormous upright stones at Avebury (Abury).Google ScholarThese and other similar markings seen elsewhere, are also alluded to by him in the “Trans. Newbury District Field-Club,” vol. ii. 1878, p. 249, etc.Google Scholar