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CONTENTS

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I. CISSBURY RING AND CHANCTONBURY RING1
II. MAUMBURY RINGS AND MAIDEN CASTLE28
III. CATTLE-TRACKS51
IV. ST. MARTINSELL HILL72
V. THE DEVIL’S DYKE, NEAR BRIGHTON83
VI. MALVERN87
VII. FIRLE97
VIII. WILLERSLEY HILL104
IX. DEW-POND EXPERIMENTS109

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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I. Dried-up Dew-pond near Cissbury, fortified by a Surrounding Ditch and Earthen Wall4
II. Neolithic Roadway leading to Southern Face of Cissbury Ring5
III. Another View of the same Neolithic Roadway in the Foreground. The Terraces on the other Side of the Valley may be seen from this Position7
IV. View of Inner and Outer Embankments at Cissbury Ring9
V. Depression marking the Site of a Guard-house just outside the Southern Entrance to Cissbury Ring11
VI. Cleft in the Outer Ring at Cissbury at a Point overlooking the Terraces13
VII. Eastern Entrance to Cissbury Ring showing Traces of Rectangular Guard-houses15
VIII. Cattle-ways leading down to Dew-pond at the North of Cissbury Ring16
IX. The Low Embankment enclosing an Area of Land between Cissbury and Chanctonbury Rings19
X. Fortifications surrounding Dew-pond near Chanctonbury Ring21
XI. Remains of Watch-house enclosed within the Earthworks defending the Dew-pond close to Chanctonbury Ring22
XII. View of Dew-pond near Chanctonbury Ring. Trees covering Chanctonbury Ring seen in the Distance23
XIII. View of Part of the Mound of Chanctonbury Ring25
XIV. View through Long Axis of Maumbury Rings29

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XV. View in one of the Ditches surrounding Maiden Castle33
XVI. View from Summit of one of the Surrounding Embankments at Maiden Castle34
XVII. View showing Subsidence at one Point in the Rings surrounding Maiden Castle and the Level Platforms behind the Ridge of the Embankments35
XVIII. View of Dew-pond and Dividing Scarp within Maiden Castle38
XIX. View of Neolithic Road leading from Maiden Castle to Poundbury Camp. (Note that the surface is whitened by daisies.)44
XX. View of the same Roadway as shown in previous Illustration but looking in Opposite Direction45
XXI. View showing Cattle-tracks near Ogbury Camp, with Quarry in the Foreground53
XXII. View showing the Dew-pond constructed on the Line of the Cattle-tracks near Ogbury Camp57
XXIII. View of Cattle-tracks near Road leading from Amesbury to Stonehenge converging on Dew-pond by Railings in Foreground61
XXIV. View of Cattle-tracks near to Figsbury Ring65
XXV. Distant View of Cattle-tracks near Figsbury Ring69
XXVI. Sketch Plan showing Neolithic Settlement on St. Martinsell Hill, Wiltshire75
XXVII. Sketch of the Double Ridgeway at Malvern87
XXVIII. Plan of the Earthworks on Downs, near Firle, Sussex99
XXIX. Sketch showing Débris at Bottom of Cattle-tracks on Willersey Hill, Worcestershire107

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