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which 1 have refeiTed in my paper on earthworks in the 

 last number of the Somersetshire Society 's Proceedings. 

 " Here," he says, " it crosses the Ashton road to Raynes 

 Cross, and ascending the lull, enters the hundred of Port- 

 hury, in the parish of Wraxall, and terminates at the 

 ancient port of Portishead." 



On this account Sir R. C. Ploare observes, (after first 

 pointing out an error into which Collinson has fallen in 

 stating that the dyke commences at Andover, in Hamp- 

 shire,) — " Mr. Collinson has described its course with such 

 a degree of minuteness and authority, that the reader 

 would entertain no doubt of its veracity, but," says he, 

 " even with the assistance of his topographical remarks we 

 have upon personal investigation, been completely foiled." 

 He thcn states that Mr. Leman, whose opinion I have before 

 quoted as to its termination at Bowre Walls, and Stokes- 

 leigh Camps, and his surveyor, Mr. Crocker, had minutely 

 examined the ground between Bowre Walls Camp and 

 Maes Knoll, and discemed very faint, if any, existing ves- 

 tigcs of this mighty bulwark. He describes the careful way 

 in which he caused the whole track to be investigated from 

 the earthworks over the Severn, to which I have just 

 alluded, and the tract of nnbrokeu ground on Leigh Down, 

 where many vestiges of ancient population were noticed, 

 and ancient pottery picked up, but no signs of Wansdyke 

 discerncd, as if it continued towards Portishead. The 

 Stratum of limestonc, says he, approaches so near the sur- 

 lacc of the seil on this down that an agger like Wansdyke 

 eould not Avithout immense labour and difficulty have been 

 raised on it. About Yanley-street, and Eaynes Cross, 

 they could trace no vestiges of the dyke, he "thinks the 

 fosse of the old work appears in some parts of Deep Combe 

 Trane, which hroaks off from the turnpike road leading 



