Some S^nxtent Irilislr EtmauTS 0it 



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By ARTHUR B. PROWSE, M.D. Loxd., F.R.C.S. Eng. 



Read April 6th, 1893. 



r I iHE neiglibourhood of Clifton is rich in pre-historic 

 archaeology, and many writers have dealt with it. 

 There is, however, further evidence of ancient British in- 

 dustry at our very doors, which up to the present seems to 

 have escaped special notice in every treatise to which I 

 have referred. 



Clifton Down, strictly speaking, is that portion of the 

 breezy upland to the west and north-west of Clifton which 

 lies within the civil parish of Clifton. This definition is not 

 superfluous ; for numbers of people, including even the- 

 officials of the Ordnance Survey, apparently understand by 

 the term merely the Observatory Hill, together with the 

 lower ground which extends from it eastwards to Christ 

 Church, and northwards to the Fountain and Bridge Valley 

 Road. This limited area is certainly not more than one- 

 fourth of Clifton Down proper. Its true outward boundary 

 runs from the foot of Walcombe Slade, — commonly known 

 as the " G-ully," or " Stoney Valley," — up that depression 

 to its head, and across the open down in a north-east 

 direction to near the Reservoir. Thence south-east, in front 

 of the Reservoir to the top of Blackboy Hill. North-west 

 and north of this is Durdham Down, 212 acres in extent ; 

 Clifton Down being 230. 



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