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Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of 
the Alorth Wiltshire Dotons in a Aundved 
Square Ailes round Aburp. 
Hy the Hes. B. ©. Smith, M.S. 
Second Edition. Published by the Wiltshire Archeological 
Society, 1885, 
Reviewed by Rev. R. C. Cuurrersucx, Rector of Knight’s Enham, Andover. 
re SHE Wiltshire Archeological Society is to be congratulated 
é iS on being the channel through which the result of Mr, 
Smith’s thirty years of learned research and patient investigation 
have been given to the reading public: the first edition, published 
by the Marlborough College Natural History Society, having been 
in great part consumed by fire, so that not even all the original 
subscribers could obtain acopy. The volume before us only professes 
to deal with the antiquities of the British and Roman periods in 
forty-two parishes comprehended in a hundred square miles of the 
North Wiltshire Downs: but within the limits the author has thus 
set himself he has completely exhausted his subject. The book is 
touchingly dedicated “To my wife, the constant companion for the 
last thirty years, of my rambles on horseback over the Wiltshire 
-Downs””—and its plan, as well as the object of the investigations 
described in it, will be best given in Mr. Smith’s own words :— 
“Tn 1852, seeing the downs around me becoming broken up, and many of the 
_ barrows fast disappearing under the plough, I began to map down such districts 
‘as were newly brought under cultivation, and so keep a record of such of the 
mutilated earthworks as were still recognisable. Then, as my material increased, 
I projected a map ona large scale of the district surrounding Abury ; and taking 
_ the one-inch ordnance map as my guide, I enlarged it to six inches linear measure 
or thirty-six square inches, to the mile, every such square mile being distinctly 
"measured off, lettered and numbered, and on this I began to mark, as accurately 
as I could, all the barrows, camps, dykes, roads, cromlechs, stone circles, cattle 
