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words of an old English dialogue of the beginning of the eleventh 

 century may be applied almost without alteration : — 



The ploughman says: "I work hard; I go out at day-break, driving the 

 oxen to the field, and I yoke them to the plough. Be it never so stark a 

 winter, I dare not linger at home for awe of my lord. Every day I must 

 plough a full acre or more ... I have a boy driving the oxen with a 

 goad-iron, who is hoarse with cold and shouting . . . Mighty hard work 

 it is." . 



Such are some of the changes through which this district passed, 

 and which have left their traces up to the present day. They 

 reflect, not the overshadowing predominance of some great house, 

 with its rise and fall, and with an importance often exaggerated by 

 the novelist, and sometimes by the historian; but the progress of a 

 settled society, quietly living its own life, working out its own 

 destiny, and sharing in the larger movement of the whole country. 



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By Wm. Cunnington, F.G.S., and Wm. A. Cunnington, Ph.D. 



'^Wtffii COLLECTION of implements, together with a series of 

 glaciated and of naturally polished flints from this 

 locality, has lately been presented to the North Wilts Museum, 

 Devizes. 



The Knowle pit, situated near the farm of that name, on the 

 borders of Savernake Forest, is remarkable for the large number 

 of Palaeolithic implements it has afforded, more than two thousand 

 having been found there within the past two years. The discovery 

 of this interesting deposit in May, 1901, is due to S. B. Dixon, Esq., 

 of Pewsey. Although the implements have already been described 

 by various authors, there are certain problems connected with 



