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quently raised — or else when the trees were planted, mounds have 

 been formed on the Roman road to receive them and promote 

 their gi-owth. It is probable that the latter has been the case. 

 Still further on the dike is now in process of removal, and the 

 same bed of hard concrete matter has been found, although at this 

 point the road seems to have been parted from the dike. Here, at 

 the request of the members of the Club, the Eev. H. M. Scarth 

 entered upon a brief description of the course of the dike and its 

 probable object, tracing it from the camp at MaesknoU, between 

 Keynsham and Bristol, to the woodlands in Berkshire, beyond 

 Savernake and Great Bedwin. He reminded the Club that at 

 different intervals they had visited the various traces of its course 

 which still remain — at Compton Dando, Stantonbury, Englishcombe, 

 Breach Wood, from the Wells-road to the Cross Keys, behind Prior 

 Park, over Hampton Down, and across the Avon to near Warleigh 

 Manor. They were now filling up the interval between that point 

 and Neston Park, from whence it could be traced from Savernake 

 Forest, and on to the Thames. Mr. Fuller infomied the Club that 

 the line of the dike was the boundary between two parishes. 

 Some observations were also made by the Hev. John Earle, who 

 quoted references made to it in Saxon documents, and also instanced 

 works of a similar character, especially the famous boundary of the 

 Koman Empire erected by Trajan against the Dacians. This was 

 probably, as supposed by Stukeley, Dr. Guest, and others, an early 

 boundary line formed by the earliest invaders of Britain, the Belgae, 

 ■who, according to Caesar, had occupied that portion of Britain 

 between the Thames and the Severn. It had been asserted that 

 since the formation of the Roman road in the course of this boundary 

 line (i.e., in the portion between Ashley coppice, near Monkton 

 Farleigh, and Morgan's Hill,* or near that point on the Marlborough 



* Stukeley, describing the Roman road from Marlborough to Bath, says — 

 " It passes just by Calston lime kiln, and is defaced by it, for the workmen 

 make no scruple to dig through it for their materials, and this practice has 

 been so old as to denominate the town lying beneath. Soon after it meets 

 with the Wansdike descending the hill just by the Gibbet ; here it enters full 

 into it, and very dexterously makes use of it all along to the bottom on a very 

 convenient shelf or spurn of the hill ; at the place of union is a flexure of the 

 Wansdike, so that the Boman road coincides with it directly, and in order to 



