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liEPonTS OiV TfiE STATE OP SCIENCE. 



half the time eleven men and a boy were engaged.^ Only three-quarters of a day 

 was lost owing to wet weather. Of both the cuttings sectional diagrams were 

 made on the ground, plotted to a scale of 8 feet to an inch, in which the various 

 soils were shown, and the exact position of every object of importance found during 

 the excavations was projected into these sections, notes bemg preserved relating 

 to each numbered ' find.' The accompanying diagrammatic section of Cutting I. 

 shows the position of the pottery and other objects found, and the various strata 

 which formed the accumulated silting iu the fosse. 



Sixteen satisfactory photographs (half-plate) were taken of Avebury, the 

 majority showing the progress made in the excavations from time to time as new 

 features presented themselves. 



AVEBURY STONE CIRCLE. WILTS (i903). 



AVERAGE SECTION OF THE S. FOSSE. 

 SHOWINC THE POSITION OF THE POTTERY AND OTHER OBJECTS FOUND. 





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REFERENCES TO SOILS . 



TURF AND TURF MOULD. 

 SURFACE SILT/WO (CMIErLV MOULD). 

 MIXED SILTING. 

 FINE MIXED SILTING. 

 CHALK RUBBLE. 



REFERENCES TO FINOS . 



+ W0.7IMAN AND MEDIEVAL POTTERY. 



© POTTERY or ROMANO-BRITISH TYPE. 



ROMAN POTTERY. 



• POTTERY OF BRONZE ACE TYPE. 



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i 



SCALE OF 



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so it 



FEET. 



^ METRES. 



The excavations were visited by several fellows of the Society of Antiquaries 

 of London, and by members of the Wiltshire Ai-chseological Society, Somerset- 

 shire Archaeological Society, and the Viking Club.'- 



After consultation with Lord Avebury it was decided to leave the excavations 

 open until next spring, and a strong stake and wire fence has therefore been 

 erected to enclose the disturbed ground. 



' Most of the men were local labourers, but I brought with me, as foreman, 

 T. Paul, of Glastonbury, for many years engaged in work at the Lake Village there, 

 and another man with similar experience. 



^ The Chairman and Secretary of the Stone Circles Committee, British Associa- 

 tion, visited the excavations, and Lord Avebury came down from ^lOndon on two 

 occasions. 



