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varied from lljft. to 17ft. A third cutting close on the west side of the 

 modern road was made in the hope of finding the original causeway of 

 the entrance, which was afterwards discovered on the other (the east) 

 side of the road. ■ At this point a considerable amount of soil had been 

 deposited in modern times when the road was made or widened, and the 

 bottom was reached at 23ft. from the surface. Nothing was found on 

 the bottom here. As has been said the original entrance causeway of un- 

 disturbed chalk was found on the east side of the road, at a depth of only 

 lft. 6in. below the present surface of the turf. This causeway was 24ft. 

 wide at the top, and the two great stones of the outer circle still standing 

 are evidently the portals through which it ran. It was apparently to 

 avoid these stones that the modern road was made on the western side 

 of the ancient causeway. 



Mr. Gray's report is as minutely accurate and full as was that written 

 by him last year. 



Cambridge County Geographies. Wiltshire By 

 A. G. Bradley, with Maps, Diagrams, and Illust- 

 rations. Cambridge : at the University Press, 1909. 



Linen, 7£ X 5, pp. xi + 156. Price Is. &d., coloured Physical Map, 

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 of other views and portraits. The scope of this most useful school book is 

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