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were pressed for time, and were hindered in determining the exacl 
width and form of the causeway throughout its whole length, and our 
work was also impeded by the plantation of beech-trees. 
As far as the causeway could be examined, the top, found at an average 
depth of 1°7 foot from the surface, was about 24 feet wide. On either side 
the level of the solid chalk gradually receded as if sloping off to meet 
the upper margin of the walls of the fosse in the form of rough steps 
not always well defined. The brink of the eastern fosse was followed 
in two places only. On the west such obstacles as the wooden fence, 
the bank and hedge, and the road itself, prevented any exact determina- 
tion of the manner in which the western fosse finished and the cause- 
way began. However, the existence of the entrance-causeway is a 
proved fact, the portals to the central area being represented by the 
two great standing- stones of the outer circle still in their original] 
position. 
The vallum now remaining nearest to the causeway would appear to 
have obstructed the entrance-way from the Kennet Avenue, but this is 
not really so, for allowance must be made for the silting down of the 
material composing the vallum at its end, forming a talus, and 
for the fact that other beech-trees have been planted in this position, 
caused obstruction, and gathered round them a certain amount of de- 
cayed vegetable matter. 
VIII. Grants and Subscriptions. 
In addition to the grant of 801. made by the British Association for 
the excavations of 1909, the following private donations and grants 
were kindly subscribed to the fund :— 
£8) a 
Society of Antiquaries of London . 25 0 0 
Lord Avebury, D.C.L., F.R.S. (1908-9) . 20 0 O 
W.-M. Tapp, LL.D., F.S.A. . : 2 : 5 0 0 
‘The Hon. John Abercromby, F.S.A. (Scotland) 5eOleO 
Marlborough College Natural History Society . 5 0.0 
British Archeological Association . sis TO 
Mrs. Eustace Smith and Salen A. Smith, F. 8. A. 100 
J. Challenor Smith, F.S.A. . ; 010 6 
And the following donations from the Wiltshire Archeological 
Society :— 
W. Heward Bell, F.S.A. . 
Sir Prior Goldney, Bart., ‘OV. 0, C.B. 
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice 
F. H. Goldney : 
N. Story Maskelyne, F. RS. 
G. J. Buxton . ’ 
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