By the Rev. E. H. Qoddard. 



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date at 1500 to 1900 B.C. All evidence points to its being a Sun 

 Temple, the sun rises over the Hele Stone and shines directly on the 

 altar stone and central trilithon on Midsummer day. Objects found 

 in the excavations 1901 are deposited in Devizes Museum, Cat. II. 

 p. 101. Other flint implements and piece of implement of diabase, 

 Devizes Museum, Cat. II. 37 ; Arch, lviii. 1 ; W.A.M. xxxiii. 1 ; 

 Lockyer's Stonehenge and other British Stone Monuments 1906; 

 Barclay's Stonehenge and its Earthworks ; Petrie's Stonehenge : 

 LoDg's Stonehenge and its Barrows, W.A.M. xvi. 1 ; W. J. Harrison, 

 Bibliography of Stonehenge, W.A.M. xxxii. 1 ; A. W. I. 157, map 170. 



The " Cursus," an enclosure between parallel banks with rounded ends, 

 extending from just over the Winterbourne Stoke border, just W. of 

 Fargo plantation, eastwards to boundary of Amesbury and Durrington 

 for 1 mile 5 furlongs 176 yards, with a breadth of 110 yards. At E. 

 end a mound like a long barrow (42) lies just outside the rounded 

 end. 825 yards W. from this are opposite entrances on each side. 

 Near W. end a slight bank crosses the cursus and just within the 

 end are two barrows. Use of Cursus unknown. O. M. 54 SW, SE ; 

 A. W. I. 158, 159, map 170. 



[The whole of the Cursus east of the combe or valley into which it 

 dips (shown by contour on O.M.) is under cultivation ; part of this 

 is still traceable across the ploughed ground by a white chalky line 

 marking the site of the bank, but further east and at its end we 

 could see absolutely no trace at all, although the state of the ground 

 was favourable for doing so. 1913. M.B.C.] 



bher Earthworks. 



Vespasian's Camp occupies apex of down with Avon river on two sides. 

 Wedge shaped, pointed end to N. S. end cut off by road and 

 mutilated. Single vallum, mutilated on E. side in forming 

 grounds of Abbey, interior planted. Area 39 acres. OM. 54 SE. ; 

 A.W. I. 160, map 170. 



West Amesbury. Aubrey, Mon. Brit, is quoted by Hoare (A. W. 1. 198,) 

 as saying that " near to the Farm House of W. Amesbury is a 

 great ditch" also near Barrow 17 "Normanton Ditch." Hoare 

 could find no traces of either. 



Large bank and ditch running roughly parallel to S. side of Andover 

 Boad for 2 miles or more and forming for a mile boundary of 

 Amesbury and Bulford. " May be traced along the vale in its 

 course westward down to a barn and through one large arable 

 field beyond it" (Hoare) and on the East alongside the road as 

 far as milestone 75, when it bends to the right (in Choldertoh ?) 

 to Wilbury. O.M. 55 SW. ; A. W. I. 216, Station V. 



At 7th milestone from Salisbury, on Salisbury — Marlborough Boad, 

 about 1 mile E. of Amesbury Workhouse, and E. of the rd. 

 O.M. 60 NE shows a ditch running S.W. to N.E. for a short 

 distance, the remains of " Two very singular banks and ditches " 

 which, says Hoare, run parallel to each other over the down for 

 1716ft. 97ft. apart. 



