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camps in general, demurring strongly to Col. Morgan's assertion 

 that the majority were of post-Boman origin. Dr. Boyd Dawkins 

 said it was the most complex camp he knew of, he thought the 

 outer rings belonged to a different period from the inner. The 

 complicated entrance on the east side with its defences was identical 

 in principle with the entrances of Maiden Castle, Dorchester, and 

 other camps of the Early Iron Age. 



Mr. Albany Major contended that the word " municipia" used 

 in the accounts of the wars of Alfred with the Danes, referred 

 really to these hill camps, which were occupied both by Danes and 

 Saxons in turn. 



Leaving Yarnbury the long train of motors made their way to 

 the WINTERBOURNE STOKE GROUP OF BARROWS. 

 Here Mrs. Cunnington discoursed on the various types of barrows 

 found in Wiltshire, of which there were examples of almost all 

 within sight. Professor Sayce then called attention to the fact 

 that the " cylindrical notched beads " found in many of the Bronze 

 Age barrows of Wiltshire, of which there are a number of examples 

 in the Society's Museum, are identical, as he believed, with similar 

 beads found in Egypt with remains of the end of the 18th and 

 early part of the 19th Dynasty, and only with remains of this 

 period, so that they could be dated roughly about 1300 B.C. He 

 thought that the Wiltshire beads certainly came from Egypt, and 

 that they gave a date within fifty or a hundred years for the barrows 

 in which they were found. The Egyptian beads were of steatite or 

 faience, and lie contended that the Wiltshire beads were wrongly 

 spoken off as being of glass. The Rev. E. H. Goddard, however, 

 said that no steatite beads had been found in Wiltshire, and that 

 the substance of which the Wiltshire beads were made resembled 

 glass rather than faience. 



Rejoining the motors the company reached STONEHENGE at 

 12.15. Here the President spoke first outside the circle. He 

 thought the "blue stones" were certainly foreign to the district, 

 they might have come from Brittany or the Channel Isles, or 

 possibly from Wales — though he did not know that all the types 

 of stone had been identified in Wales. He thought that the temple 



