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EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBURY RINGS. 



the solid chalk, extended further towards the town, and if so 

 whether the same level of the chalk floor was maintained. 

 The limit of the entrance was not reached, and there was a 

 decided rise towards the N. in the level of the floor. 



The excavation revealed the western chalk wall in diminished 

 proportions, at the base of which, cut into the chalk floor, was a 

 grave containing a small contracted skeleton, probably female, 

 in a bad state of preservation. (Fig. 2.) The grave was of an 



FIG. 2 Contracted Human Skeleton, Romano-British. Found in 

 Cutting XVII., N. Entrance. 



(From a Sketch by the Rev. C. W. Whistler.) 



irregular oval form, 4' 3ft. by 2'3ft., its line being true N. and S., 

 and therefore not parallel to the line of the entrance-way ; 

 it was quite shallow as far as the solid chalk is concerned, 

 0'9ft. deep at the N., and 0'35ft. at the S. The skull was 



