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Sarsen stones, each originally composed of 200 stones, which led’ 
to that circle. Remounting the brake, a mile drive through 
Kennet brought the party to the village of Avebury, built in- 
Side the huge vallum, 70 feet in height from the bottom of the 
imner ditch, which originally surrounded the megalithic circle 
of 100 Sarsens, and the two inner concentric circles of 30 and 
12 Sarsens. The builders and purpose of this immense work 
are unknown, theories innumerable have been conjectured of the 
date of its erection, but everything about it is still a mystery. 
The whole village is built of broken Sarsens, the circles having 
been used as a quarry for centuries, and more than 650 stones. 
have disappeared. There are at present 17 Sarsens standing 
upright and 11 prostrate. 
The Vicar of Avebury received the Field Club at his Church, 
and showed the Members the very interesting structure, with its. 
Saxon and Norman remains. A fine Norman arch leads into 
the Church from the S., and the original Saxon font still exists, 
_ decorated in Norman times by elegant sculpture of a Bishop with 
~ his crozier in his right hand piercing a dragon’s head, and hold- 
ing with his left hand a book to his breast. There are some 
rude carvings, windows and walls of undoubted Saxon age, and 
the 15th century tower at the W. end is supported at its N.E. 
_ corner by a wall of Saxon age with “long and short work.” 
_ The Rev. W. H. Davis, the Vicar, having explained thoroughly 
_ the peculiarities of his Church, which had been well restored by 
his predecessor, the Rev. Bryan King, conducted the party to 
the neighbouring Elizabethan Manor House, the residence of Mr. 
q T. Kemm, who courteously received the Members, and opened 
his house to their inspection. Over the porch there is the date 
1601 and the initials of the builder, John Truslowe. There was. 
a Monastery on the site of this house previously, which was a 
- cell of St. George Boscherville- in Normandy, and some scanty 
‘remains can be seen in the garden walls. Thanking Mr. Kemm 
for his kindly reception of the Club, a retreat was made to the 
