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EECENT WILTSHIRE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, 

 ARTICLES, &c. 



N.B. — This list does not claim to be in any way exhaustive. The Editor 

 appeals to all authors and publishers of pamphlets, books, or views, in 

 any way connected with the county to send him copies of their works, 

 and to editors of papers, and members of the Society generally to send 

 him copies of articles, views, or portraits, appearing in the newspapers.] 



The Ancient Earthworks of Cranborne Chase, des- 

 cribed and delineated in plans founded on the 

 25 inch to 1 mile Ordnance Survey by Hey wood 

 Sumner, F.S.A. With a map showing the 

 physical features on the ancient sites of Cran- 

 borne Chase, founded on the 1 inch to 1 mile 

 Ordnance Survey, & coloured by hand AD, 



1913. London : Printed at the Chiswick Press, and to be obtained 

 there. Also sold by H. M. Gilbert & Son, Southampton and Winches- 

 ter ; H. Gr. Commin, Bournemouth ; H. Simmonds, Salisbury ; H. 

 Shipp, Blandford ; and by H. Ling, Dorchester, 1913. The Plans are 

 produced by Emery Walker, Ltd. Price £1 net. 



Cloth, lljin. x 7f in. Edition limited to 200 copies, pp. including 

 titles xiv. + 82, 46 plans of camps, enclosures, dykes and ditches, 

 British village sites, and earthworks of exceptional character. 



This book with its thick paper, its opulent margins, its large orna- 

 mental type, and its number of full-page or double-page plans, each 

 one an example of attractive penmanship, suggests art rather than 

 archaeology as its subject. It deals with the camps, the entrenched 

 enclosures of lesser strength, which the author regards as cattle pounds 

 or folds, the dykes and ditches, the British village sites, and the earth- 

 works of exceptional character such as Knowlton and the Breamore 

 Mizmaze lying within the ancient outer limits of Cranborne Chase in 

 Dorset, Hants, and Wilts. Working on the 25 inch Ordnance Map as 

 a basis the author has visited the earthworks and corrected the plans 

 on the spot and here gives his own plans with some description of the 

 most salient features of each work and notes of its present condition. 

 Incidentally he makes several interesting points. He explains the 

 reason why in a rectangular earthwork the corners are naturally higher 

 than the sides. He suggests that some of the horse-shoe shaped banks 

 on exposed downs were thrown up simply to shelter the cattle from 

 the wind, and thinks that banks and ditches converging on camps or 

 inhabited sites may, many of them, have been thrown up for pastoral 

 purposes, to make it easier to drive the cattle in the desired direction. 

 He agrees with Mr. Major that Whitsbury Castle probably was the 



