EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBURY RINGS. 83 



SHORT REPORT 

 ON THE EXCAVATIONS OF 1912. 



By H. ST. GEORGE GRAY. 



BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES ACCOMPANYING THIS 

 REPORT : 



PLATE I. Sketch-plan of Maumbury Rings, similar to that given 

 in the Third Interim Report, 1910, the position of the 1912 excavations 

 having been added. It shows the relative position of the cuttings 

 made in 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1912, but the scale is too small to 

 attempt to show structural details. This plan differs, however, from 

 the previous one in indicating the position of the prehistoric shafts so 

 far discovered, and it is seen that they follow the curve of the great 

 embankment at the foot of the interior slope. 



PLATE II., FIG. A. Cutting XXVII., outside the N.N.E. Entrance, 

 September 4th, 1912. Photograph taken from the W.N.W. margin 

 of a grave containing a human skeleton, the knees of which are drawn 

 up. The interment was at a minimum depth of 2'4ft. below the 

 surface of the turf. To the east a smaller excavation in the solid chalk 

 was found, connected with the grave proper, but divided by a slight 

 ridge of chalk. At the bottom of the smaller hole a few iron nails and 

 a dark brown earthenware pot, of Romano-British type, were dis- 

 covered. The pot (fig. 1 in text) is shown in this photograph in the 

 exact position in which it was uncovered, at a distance of 3'2ft. from 

 the top of the skull. 



PLATE II., FIG. B. Cutting XXI., Shaft X., September 13th, 1912. 

 Part of the back of the skull of a red-deer with antlers attached ; 

 photographed in the position discovered in the filling of Shaft X,, at a 

 depth of 14'5ft. below the turf over the arena. The skull was found 

 tight against the wall of the shaft. One of the antlers (max. length 



