IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION* 



MAP OF A HUNDRED SQUARE 

 MILES ROUND ABURT : 



With a Key to the British and Roman Antiquities 

 occurring there. 



BY THE EET. A. O. SMITH, 



Rector of Yatesbury, and Hon. Secretary of the Wiltshire Archceological 

 and Natural History Society. 



rpHIS work, the materials of which have been accumulating for twenty-five 

 r*- years, is the result of innumerable rides and rambles over the Downs of 

 North Wilts ; and deals with one of the most important archaeological Districts 

 in Europe. It will be published and issued to subscribers by the Marlborough 

 College Natural History Society, and it will consist of two parts :■— a 



First. — The Great Map — 78 inches by 48 inches, on the scale of 6 linear 

 inches, or 36 square inches, to the mile ; it comprises 100 square miles round 

 Abury, and includes the great plateau of the Downs of North Wilts, extending 

 from Oliver's Camp, on Eoundway Hill, on the west, to Mildenhall on the east ; 

 and from Broad Hinton on the north, to the Pewse'y Vale on the south. The 

 district thus mapped measures 13 miles from west to east, and 8 miles from north 

 to south. Every square mile, marked off with faint lines, lettered with a capital 

 letter and numbered, will show the Barrows, Camps, Roads, Dykes, Enclosures, 

 Cromlechs, Circles, and other British and Roman Stone- and Earth-works of that 

 district ; every such relic, being lettered with a small letter in its own square, is 

 readily found and easily referred to. The Map will be printed in six colours, 

 viz., the Antiquities in red, the Roads in brown, the. Lanes and Down Tracks in 

 green, the Sarsen Stones in yellow, and the Streams and Ponds in blue. 



Second. — The Key to the Great Map, — which is by far the most important 

 part of the work and will form a general " Guide to the British and Roman An- 

 tiquities of North Wilts," — will be a volume of large quarto size, and will contain 

 the whole of the large Map in fifteen sections, measuring 18 inches by 12, and 

 four supplementary sections, each measuring 6 inches by 12. The Letterpress 

 will contain some account of each of the Antiquities, with references to and 

 extracts from the best authorities, as well as figures of various Urns and other 

 objects found in the Barrows, views of the Cromlechs, plans of the Camps, Are. 

 An Index Map, on the scale of 1 inch to the mile, coloured, numbered, lettered, 

 and divided like the Great Map, will accompany the volume ; and the whole will 

 be a general account of the Antiquities of North Wilts, inasmuch as the district 

 thus delineated embraces nearly all the remains of earliest times which exist in 

 the northern portion of the County. 



Subscribers' names and addresses (a list of which will be published with ihc 

 Index) will be received by the Rev. T. A. Preston, The Gf-rei ». Marlborough % 

 The cost of the Large Map and Key complete will be, to Subscribers, One Guinea, 

 Any copies which remain (after all the Subscribers have been served) will be 



