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THE mighty earthworks that still crown so many of our hills fill the archæologist alike with wonder and despair—wonder that prehistoric man, with the most primitive tools, was equal to the task of raising them, and despair that so little can ever be known about them, despite the most laborious and costly excavation. Plenty of books, however, of the kind now under notice would do much to solve the mystery and increase our admiration for Neolithic man, for it is to the period before bronze was known in Britain that the authors assign the stupendous works of Cissbury and Chanctonbury on the South Downs.
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Primitive Water-Supply 1 . Nature 71, 611–612 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071611a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/071611a0