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A View a little beyond Woodyates where the Ikening Street crosses part of a Druids barrow Jun. 9. 1724

A View a little beyond Woodyates where the Ikening Street crosses part of a Druids barrow Jun. 9. 1724.jpg Firing the lettersThumbnailsProspect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724Firing the lettersThumbnailsProspect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724Firing the lettersThumbnailsProspect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724Firing the lettersThumbnailsProspect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724Firing the lettersThumbnailsProspect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724Firing the lettersThumbnailsProspect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724

The drawing is a prospect taken from the king’s barrow, west from Vespasian’s camp, in the way from Ambresbury to Stonehenge, by the Bristol road.
Tho’ the graver has not done it justice: yet it will give one a general notion of the situation of the place.
It is admirably chosen, being in the midst of those wide downs, call’d Salisbury plain; between the river Avon to the east, and a brook that runs into the Willy, on the west.