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to be of English origin, that the dykes are in themselves positive proof 

 of the united action of the English and their Saxon and Jutish kins- 

 men." 



Again, " we cannot believe that such works as the greater dykes 

 would ever have been made between two sections of the same race 

 and this remark applies both to the tribes of the Britons in early times, 

 and to the later territorial divisions or kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons. 

 The dykes seem to pre-suppose an unquenchable animosity and 

 race hatred . . . between the peoples on opposite sides of such 

 dykes." 



It follows that they cannot have been divisions between different 

 tribes of Britons, or between different Kingdoms of the Heptarchy, 

 therefore they must have been divisions between Britons and Saxons, 

 and if so they must represent successive stages of the Saxon Conquest. 

 This is the writer's argument, and if his premisses are sound the con- 

 clusion naturally follows — but are they 1 Is there really any reason 

 why the Britons should not have erected dykes as well as camps 1 The 

 writer himself later on incidentally acknowledges that there is not, for 

 inasmuch as Bokerly will not fit in with the scheme of dykes made by 

 Saxons advancing from S. to N., he supposes that it was made by the 

 Britons to defend Dorset from the Saxon. attack from the Salisbury 

 neighbourhood. This, however, would still assign Bokerly to the period 

 of the English Conquest. Major Godsal distinguishes between the 

 fortified military dykes, of which Bokerly and Wodens' Dyke are types, 

 and the " mere boundary trench only sufficiently deep to make a lasting 

 and unmistakeable mark that could not be passed unnoticed, or be 

 easily obliterated. These latter dykes seem to have been those specially 

 called Grim's Dykes." He suggests that these dykes were dedicated 

 to Grim, whom he identifies with Woden, by the Saxons, their makers, 

 as a sacred boundary beyond which the Britons might not trespass. 

 Thus Grims Dyke between Bokerly Dyke and Salisbury would be the 

 Saxon boundary to the north of the British fortified line of Bokerly. 

 It is a curious suggestion. After all, as the author himself allows, 

 only the spade can really settle the date of any given dyke. His argu- 

 ment that dykes were impossible during the heptarchy does not seem 

 to be conclusive. 



Biographical Sketch of Col. George Montagu 

 (1755—1815) English Field Zoologist. By Bruce 

 F. Cummings, Zoolog. Depart, British Museum. 



Reprint from Zoologische Annalen, Zeitschrift fiir Geschichte der 

 Zoologie. Separatabdruck. Wlirzburg. Verlag von Curt Kabitzch. 

 1912. 



Pamphlet, 9^in. X 6|in., pp. 307—325. With 2 pages of addenda 

 and corrigenda published separately in 1913. 



Hitherto the only biographical notices of Col. Montagu, of Lackham, 

 the most notable of Wiltshire Zoologists, have been the article by W. 

 Cunnington, in Wilts Arch. Mag., iii., 87, the notice in Diet, of Nat. 



