Cigarette Card

Wills’s Cigarettes “Wonders of the Past” Cigarette Card #35 “Stonehenge”

Produced in 1926 by W. D. & H. O. Wills.

Issued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“Stonehenge is the most stupendous existing memorial to the religious practices of the prehistoric inhabitants 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.”