. La vieille route . ecially de la période néolithique et du Bronze : tout dans une petite zone, et tout dans le neigh-bourhood immédiat de cette manière. Tant de indications étaient suffisantes pour nous faire suivre le chemin de passage à travers Puttenham Heath, et notre conjecture a été confirmée par notre découverte à l'extrémité plus loin de la heath, le remblai aconspicene marqué par une ligne exacte de trois arbres veryagés, qui partout indiquent la voie. Bien qu'il ne s'agisse pas d'une route, rugueuse et marquée seulement par les ornières dans le sol d'hiver et par son rang d'arbres séculiers, c'était le plus évident de la vieille route. Nous étions contents de nous rendre à havefou

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. The Old Road . ecially of the Neolithic period and of theBronze : all within a small area, and all in the immediate neigh-bourhood of this Way. So many indications were sufficient to make us follow theright-of-way across Puttenham Heath, and our conjecture wasconfirmed by our finding at the further edge of the heath, aconspicuous embankment marked by an exact line of three veryaged trees, which everywhere indicate the track. Though it was hardly a road, rough and marked only byruts in the winter soil and by its rank of secular trees, it was most evidently the Old Road. We were glad to havefound it. When we had passed through the hollow to the north of afew cottages, direct evidence of the road disappeared at theboundary of Monks Hatch Park, but it was not lost for long.350 yards further on, laid on the same line, a slightly sunkenway reappeared; it ran a few yards below the recently madeAsh Path, and led directly by the lane along the south ofBrixbury Wood, across the Compton Road, and so by a lane94. o Km a OF THE ROAD called Sandy Lane, beyond, over the crest of the hill, till, asthe descent began, it became metalled, grew wider, and mergedat last into the regular highway which makes straight for St.Catherines Hill and the ferry and ford below it. The Old Road having thus coincided once more with aregular road, we went at a greater pace, observing little of oursurroundings (since nothing needed to be discovered), andhoped to make before it was quite dark the passage of theriver. Arrived, however, at that curious platform which supports insuch an immense antiquity of consecration the ruins of St.Catherines chapel, we saw that the exact spot at which theriver was crossed was not easily to be determined. The doubtdoes not concern any considerable space. It hesitates betweentwo points on the river, and leaves unmapped about 800 yardsof the road ; but that gap is, it must be confessed, unsolved sofar as our investigation could be carried. It is certain that the prehis

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