xxxi.i LORD AVEBURY 181 



Shortly after their return from Wales his 

 youngest child Maurice was born, on October 17. 



It was rather fitting that this year, in which 

 he took Avebury for his title, he should have 

 purchased a considerable area of ground, some 

 seven hundred acres, adjoining his former property 

 there. The new purchase was, from the farming 

 point of view, a sheep farm, but of greater interest 

 to him was the fact that it included the mound 

 called by the great antiquarian, Stukeley, the 

 " Serpent's Head." 



