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point to their position. As the Rev. Charles Kerry has stated, 
the names for or appertaining to liquids, are themselves liquid. 
Water, Ooze, Ouse (a river) Oasis, Well, Wet, all have u , o, or w 
as their prefix. Even the Saxon Wan has the same liquid 
sound. Thus Wanborough, “ the hill by the marsh ” ; Wish- 
moor, the Uisk-moor, the water-moor or possibly the big 
drinking water (Celtic) ; and similar names would indicate, as 
they generally do, probable camping-grounds. 
It does not follow that, whenever these three conditions are 
fulfilled, flint flakes, or occupation signs, will be as a matter of 
course discovered, any more than, when an excellent site for 
building is pointed out, one invariably expects to find a house 
there. 
All that can be said is, that flakes, &c., are never found in 
places that do not fulfil these conditions more or less. Take 
the neighbourhood of Aldershot, for example. Near the Staff 
College by the 44 Wishmoor ” stream, sheltered by the East- 
hampstead ridges, near the old tracks still existent, converging 
on the rare fords of the river Blackwater, was a definite “ sta- 
tion.” Lower down the rivulet, on a dry sandy peninsula, once 
washed on two sides by its waters, was another equally clear — 
not on the road, but off it ; not in the way of enemies, but 
concealed from them by trees or hills. 
On both sides of the Hog’s Back, about Gruildford, at the 
outcome of the streams, close to the ancient villages of Seale, 
Farnham, Puttenham, and the old manor of “ Wanborough,” 
the traces of early peoples lie thick in the flint flakes and 
tools that extend over certain limited areas there. Even the 
soil in these same areas is darker from occupation, and Mr. 
Kerry has found this sudden local alteration of colour to be a 
nearly infallible indication of primaeval camps. 
At Bob’s Mount, near Reading, on dry land overlooking the 
erstwhile marshy valley of the Kennet, seemed a probable site, 
being near water, and having a corrupted ancient name. Search 
at once revealed numerous flakes and cores. Excavation at one 
point resulted in the exhuming of a Roman amphora. It had been 
for generations evidently an ancient halting-place. At Odiham, 
as will be seen by a glance at the map, are the springs and 
sources of one of the tributaries of the Loddon : near it is the 
village of “ Wanborough,” and the relics of a mediaeval castle. 
Of course there were implements and flakes there, for every- 
thing pointed to old occupation. A main road to Basingstoke, 
an ancient name, abundant water springs. Primitive man had 
used it ; Saxons had left their traces there ; the Normans had 
seen its value, and had built a keep that checked the army of 
the Dauphin of France, and held prisoner the Bruce. 
But what have the ancient people left behind them in these 
