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"My Dear Me. Smith, 



" In the interesting paper under the above heading in the last number of 

 our Magazine I am surprised to find that my late esteemed parishioner, Mr. 

 Butler, of Kennett, should have expressed himself with such hesitation on some 

 of the existing remains of the Kennett avenue as he does in his letter to Dr. 

 Thurnam, given in a note at p. 331. Thus he writes, ' on the south side of 

 the road [i.e., from Kennett to Marlborough] is some of the stones which is 

 believed to be a part of the avenue.' 



" Now, I submit that an inspection of the stones in question will amply satisfy 

 any person that they formed part of this avenue. 



" They stand in the hedge-bank of the meadow at the south of the Marlborough 

 road as it leaves the hamlet of Kennett ; they cannot be seen from the road 

 itself, owing to the massiveness of the hedge-bank, but must be visited from the 

 meadow. They are four in number, all of them being ' in situ,' and standing 

 about twenty -three yards apart; two of them are prostrate, and the two others 

 have been partially broken.* 



" I am, 



" Yours very faithfully, 

 " Avebury, Calne, " Beyan King." 



July 23rd, 1878." 



• There i6 also another stone which douhtless formed part of the Kennet Avenue, now lying in the 

 hedge-bank at the corner of the road which branches off from the London road to East Kennett, 

 and though completely hidden by the hedge and bank from the passer-by will be found by anyone 

 who searches for it : this stone is in the same line with those in the Kennett meadow above-men- 

 tioned, and indeed is the easternmost stone of the avenue now existing. [Ed.] 



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