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Today21/09/2015The man who bought Stonehenge for £6,600

Stonehenge was sold at auction to Cecil Chubb 100 years ago

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View of Stonehenge at the end of the 19thC showing it in a ruinous state

The tallest upright of the Great Trilithon leaning at a precarious angle, ©NMR.

  • Auction catalogue from 1915 - complete with final sale price
  • View of Stonehenge at the end of the 19thC showing it in a ruinous state
  • Sir Cecil and Mary Chubb
  • Copy of a historic photograph of Stonehenge, 1870
  • A postcard of Stonehenge from the early 20th Century, before maintenance work took place
  • Original auction catalogue, from 1915

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