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enthusiasm and acumen of former years ; his camping 

 arrangements, with caravan and tents, were even on a more 

 lavish scale than in 1910. The kind assistance of Major S. 

 Willcock and Mr. Sebastian Evans cannot be too warmly 

 acknowledged. As previously, the director has held himself 

 responsible for the recording of the work, the preparation of 

 all plans, sectional drawings and photographs,* as well as 

 the care and repair of the relics discovered. Help in the 

 matter of identifying specimens has been kindly rendered 

 by Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., and 

 Mr. W. Denison. Roebuck, F.L.S. 



In conjunction with this, the Fourth Interim Report, 

 readers are recommended to peruse the previously published 

 papers on the subject, to enable them to interpret the full 

 significance of some of the details of structural interest. 

 The sketch-plan (Plate I.) is intended merely to show the 

 general outline of Maumbury Rings and the relative position 

 of the twenty-nine cuttings already made. The detailed 

 plans, sectional diagrams, and contoured map (it should be 

 repeated in this paper) are reserved for a fuller Report on 

 the excavations. 



During this season the investigation of the outer part of 

 the northern entrance was completed, finding the Civil War 

 trench again and the limit of the chalk cut to form a flat 

 roadway leading into the arena. The first cutting (No. XXII.) 

 made, revealed quite a new structural feature, viz., a deep 

 trench of V-shaped section which extended first in a N.W. 

 direction, and afterwards turned almost due south, terminat- 

 ing at the foot of the great embankment not many yards 

 westward of the western margin of the entrance. In pursuing 

 this investigation another human skeleton, the fifth found 

 in these excavations, was discovered in this instance in a 

 shallow grave hewn in the chalk, and associated with these 



* Subscribers may see the full series of photographs (1908-1910, and 

 1912) on applying at the Dorset County Museum. 



