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: Excabations in Tansdpke, 1889-91. 
By Lieut.-General Prrr-Rrvens, D.C.L., F.BS., F.S.A. 
[Read at the Wilton Meeting, 1891.] 
=< HERE are several reasons why this communication should be 
a short one. Although the excavations in Wansdyke are 
in continuation of the subject of my address of last year, and there 
is no record of them in the Journal of our Society, the results are 
pretty well known to archeologists, and have been communicated to 
other societies. Some of the Members of this Society saw one of 
the sections at Devizes last year, and the details, upon which the 
chief interest of the subject depends, are given in the third 4to 
volume of my excavations, which will appear shortly. I hope also 
to-morrow to be able to show most of the Members the models of 
the excavations in my Museum at Farnham, which will explain the 
subject better than can be done by means of diagrams! A third 
reason is, that my friend, Mr. Andrews, has a paper to read, which, 
in common with the other Members present, I desire to hear. 
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It may be remembered by some, that, in my address last year, I 
explained the way in which evidence of the date of Bokerly Dyke 
had been brought to light. We shall see the site of these exca- 
vations to-morrow, although the cuttings have been entirely filled 
in, and cannot be seen upon the ground. Upwards of six hundred 
- Roman coins were found in the rampart of the dyke, in positions 
_ which showed that they must have been thrown up into the dyke 
at the time it was made. These coins dated up to the time of 
_ Honorius and Arcadius, and proved that the dyke was not made 
earlier than the time of the evacuation of Britain by the Romans. 
The way in which the coins got into the rampart was thus :—the 
1The Farnham Museum now contains forty models of earthworks in which 
excavations have been made, and the relics are arranged in wall-cases adjoining 
them. 
*,* The Society is indebted to Gen. Pitt-Rivers for the gift of the map accom- 
a panying this paper. 
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