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THE Marlborough College Natural History Society is interesting as a school institution which has had an unbroken existence since 1864, when it was founded under the auspices of the then headmaster, later Dean Bradley of Westminster; it now issues its seventy-third printed report. Marlborough is situated in an unique position for this study, with some primeval forest in Savernake on one side and the open savannahs of the Downs on the other. Between the two runs the Kennett, here quite a small sluggish stream noted for its excellent trout-fishing, with beds of willows and water meadows by its sides. Near its head waters, from six to seven miles away, lie Silbury Hill and Avebury, the latter with its immense stone circles. The Downs show dolmens and tumuli, most of the latter probably of much later age, and there are numerous remains in camps, etc., of Roman times. The Report contains an account of excavations on the Wansdyke where it approaches Savernake Forest, and Mr. A. C. Brentall contributes a description of Martinsell, an old camp or cattle enclosure, three to four miles away, on the top of a chalk hill which falls precipitously to some of the richest agricultural ground of Wilts. Flint implements are common everywhere, as shown in an article by J. G. D. Clark, comparing 2000 specimens collected within two years at Marlborough and Seaford.
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School Natural History Societies. Nature 116, 837–838 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116837b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116837b0