Wonders of the Past, Stonehenge #35 Imperial Tobacco Card 

1926 Wills's Cigarettes Wonders of the Past, Stonehenge #35 Imperial Tobacco Card
2 5/8 X 1 3/8 inches (67 x 41 mm).

Back reads: Stonehenge is the most stupendous existing memorial to the religious practices of the British Isles. Dating roughly from 2000 B.C., it stands in a lonely position on Salisbury Plain, and consists of a ring within a ring of upright stones, the outer ring measuring 100 feet across. How these unwieldy masses were raised on end is a mystery; but more mysterious still, the uprights are bridged with lintels hardly less massive than themselves. It is possible that Stonehenge served an astronomical as well as a religious purpose, and that several detached uprights were "pointers" for observing sunrise and sunset.

W.D.& H.O.WILLS
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