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The Ancient Wiltshire Di/Jces. 



object secured by them was to form boundary -lines, either for clans, 

 or tribes, or nations. 



(b) That the most ancient of these dykes are probably 

 Bokerly Dyke, and that what is termed, as though in contradis- 

 tinction to some other similar and more recent work, The Old 

 Dyke ; — that these are what have been of late years designated 

 Belgic works, and that their dates may very possibly be three 

 hundred, or two hundred, years before Christ, 



(c) That the next in point of antiquity are the Gejms dykes, 

 near Salisbury, — and that very possibly these were tribal boundaries, 

 formed by the Romanized Britons, towards the close of the Roman 

 rule, or about A.D. 300—400. 



(d) That the last in point of date is that which is the northern- 

 most of all, the Wansdyke : and that though it is quite possible 

 there was an older and smaller earthwork before it, yet that in Us 

 present form, it is just as likely to have been to a considerable extent 

 an English work, and possibly of the date of the sixth century. 



W. H. Jones. 



Bradford-on-Avon, 

 June, 1874. 



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 wards the fittings of the Museum and Library, from T. H. Poynder, Esq., 

 of Hartham Park. 



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