The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volumes 67-68Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1972 - Natural history Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. |
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... clay containing an amount of bituminous oil . Provided all rainfall was swept off that oily surface , the clay afforded a brick hard foundation for the very heavy machinery which was used to scrape off the clay in thin films so that it ...
... clay containing an amount of bituminous oil . Provided all rainfall was swept off that oily surface , the clay afforded a brick hard foundation for the very heavy machinery which was used to scrape off the clay in thin films so that it ...
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... Clay , which could well be an original turf ' . Under the bank this layer reached a maximum depth of 14 or 15 inches ; elsewhere it was much thinner . The clay bank was found between E 5 and E 35 . In front it still remained to a height ...
... Clay , which could well be an original turf ' . Under the bank this layer reached a maximum depth of 14 or 15 inches ; elsewhere it was much thinner . The clay bank was found between E 5 and E 35 . In front it still remained to a height ...
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... clay at 173 feet , separated the normal consolidated clay of the bank from a slightly discoloured wedge of clay , the division marking the edge of the trench cut for the insertion of the wall . The back of the bank was difficult to ...
... clay at 173 feet , separated the normal consolidated clay of the bank from a slightly discoloured wedge of clay , the division marking the edge of the trench cut for the insertion of the wall . The back of the bank was difficult to ...
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MILES | 5 |
AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE WILTSHIRE Section of the M4 MOTORWAY by R S Barron I | 7 |
Upper Jurassic | 15 |
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12th century Aldbourne Amesbury Ashton Keynes Avenue Barnes barrow beaker bird bones borough bowl breeding records Bronze Age centre chalk Chippenham Church clay bank Coate Water Corsham Corsham Lake Cricklade decoration Devizes Devizes Museum ditch Durrington Walls east EJMB enclosure evidence excavation fabric field flint Fonthill Lake fragments garden glaze Grey Wagtails Grose Hill Horton inches L. F. Stearn larvae layer Lower Swinley marked MCNHS medieval Minety Miss mortar Natural History noted Oxford pairs Pewsey pipes plough pottery probably rampart reported river RJJH road Roman Romano-British Roundway Salisbury Salisbury Museum Sarum Saxon seen sherds side sight records SNHS Society soil species Stonehenge stones Stourhead subsoil surface Swanborough Swindon Swindon SF trench turf vessel wall Wanborough Warbler ware Wilton Water Wiltshire Archaeological Wood