Cunnington 1884 thin sections and rock specimens (Wiltshire Museum)

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William Cunnington III's Victorian Stonehenge thin sections and rocks, rediscovered in 2021, and the papers on them.

References

Ixer, R., Bevins, R., Pirrie, D., Power, M., Pearce, N.J.G. 2026. William Cunnington's 1884 Stonehenge lithologies revisited. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 119: 1–19.
Ixer, R., Bevins, R., Pearce, N., Dawson, D. 2022. New insights into the Stonehenge bluestones. Current Archaeology 391 (October 2022): 46–50.
Clarke, A.J.I., Kirkland, C.L., de Oliveira Vicentini, A., Brown, L. 2026. Altar to Attic to Analysis: geochemical authentication of a rediscovered Victorian thin section of Stonehenge's Altar stone. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 70: 105619. DOI (open access)
Daw, T. 2021-05. sarsen.org blog post "1865 missing paper cunnington geology". link (open access)

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