The Year’s Work In Archaeology 1921 published by the Congress of Archaeological Societies (in union -with the Society of Antiquaries of London) and printed by the Hampshire Advertiser Company Limited, 45 Above Bar, Southampton, 1922, included:
Mr. O. G. S. Crawford reports that he has followed ” Old Ditch,” on Salisbury Plain, between Knook Castle and its present most westerly known point on Warminster Down. He was able to add a little to the eastern portion, but could not prolong it westwards. Sir R. Colt Hoare’s statement that the work is older than the “British village,” near Knook Castle, immediately west of Quebec Farm, seems very probable, as it runs through the middle of the village; but it is not possible to check this, as the western portion has been ploughed flat since his time. The ditch is nearly always on the N. side; but in one place, where the work is very perfect half a mile N.E. of Quebec Farm, it consists of two banks fourteen paces apart, the southern being the higher, with a silted-up ditch between. It is referred to at this point as die in an A.S. charter of A.D. 989. Colt Hoare marks a portion of the dyke on Upton Cow Down, which Mr. Crawford did not find. This would carry the dyke right to the escarpment above Westbury Leigh. Mr, Crawford adds that a very fine ” hollow way ” leads from the “British village ” N.W. of Quebec Farm, down to an old embanked pond in a copse at the bottom of the valley southwards. The pond is probably as old as the village.