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irregular construction of the bank outside the ditch. He knew of 

 no other such. Its height and width varied continually, and he 

 suggested that it really represents merely the line of spoil heaps 

 in which the contents of the ditch were thrown up. The rubble was 

 thrown up anyhow merely to get rid of it, and with no particular ob- 

 ject in view, Prof.Boyd Dawkins, however, replied that several Iron 

 Age earthworks — Hod Hill among them — had the same irregular 

 top to the bank. As to the age of Avebury he quite agreed with 

 Lord Avebury that the temple belonged to the Bronze Age — the 

 many barrows of this age in the neighbourhood pointed to this. 

 He did not agree with the theory put forth by Mr. Keginald Smith 

 that the round-bottomed pottery, fragments of which had been 

 found in the silting of the ditch, was of the Neolithic period. 

 Bound-bottomed vessels, both here and on the Continent, were 

 found belonging to a much later period. As to the flint implements 

 found at the bottom of the ditch, the use of flint survived into the 

 Bronze Age, and stag's horn picks were used from Neolithic right 

 down to medieval times. For Sir Norman Lockyer's theories of 

 sight lines, warning stars, and so on, he had no respect at all. 



AVEBUKY CHUBCH was next visited, the Bev. E. H. Goddard 

 again acting as guide, pointing out the original Saxon windows of 

 the nave, and the small round openings in the clerestory as of the 

 same date. Dr. St. John Hope doubted whether these circular 

 openings were Saxon, he did not know any example of a Saxon 

 clerestory, and suggested that they were insertions of the 12th 

 century, when the Norman arcades were cut through the walls. 



THE MANOB HOUSE, by the kindness of Captain and Mrs. 

 Jenner, was next visited, Captain Jenner giving some account of 

 what was known of its history. Luncheon in the yard of the 

 "Bed Lion" followed at 12.45, and at 1.45 the motors proceeded 

 along the Marlborough Boad to the entrance to Clatford Bottom, 

 where they remained whilst the company walked up the farm track 

 to the DEVIL'S DEN, where Mr. Goddard again gave a few words 

 of description, speaking of it as the stone chamber of a long barrow 

 which had almost disappeared. Mrs. Cunnington said there was 

 a tradition that the barrow had been carted away. Professor 



