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formerly stood upright. Tf it was erect, it would completely hide 

 the view of the Friar's Heel from the altar, and thus would alto- 

 gether dispose of this ingenious theory. 



Professor Rupert Jones, however, submitted that the intermediate 

 stone — which may once have stood upright, and then interrupted the 

 view of the sun on the special hour on the Friar's Heel — might have 

 been intended as an obstruction by an opposing sect, whether it was 

 ever set up or not. 



Mr. Brock, in opposition to Mr. Picton and othei-s, reasoned that 

 the hewn stones were not subsequent in ei'ection to the obelisks, for 

 the scaffolding or inclined planes of earth used to erect the cross- 

 beams on the large stones would have displaced or buried the shorter 

 stones. The work — he thought — must be regarded as a whole. 



Mr. Edwards, of Amesbury, said that over one of the detached 

 stones near the outer trench the sun could be seen at setting on the 

 shortest day : but it appeared there was no proof that a stone ever 

 existed on the raised place indicated from which to take observations. 



After a perambulation of the enclosure, the parties separated, the 

 Members of the Association returning to Devizes by the direct road 

 across the Plain, and by Redhorn. 



At the evening meeting Mr. J. T. Burgess read a very interesting 

 paper on " Devizes Castle," which, by the courtesy of the author, 

 will be found in this Magazine. At its conclusion, the President 

 thanked Mr. Burgess for his very full account of the Castle, and 

 more particularly his explanatory references to other earthworks, 

 and said that the matter thus brought before them by a gentleman 

 so well acquainted with old castles and earthworks, could not but 

 form a most valuable addition to any future history of the place. 

 He concurred with Mr. Burgess that the old entrance was probably 

 by Castle Lane, and that opinion coincided with the lines laid down 

 by Leland. He had himself walked the previous day by a green 

 lane, where the boundary of the Old Park estate was marked by a 

 very broad and deep ditch, and he believed that ground had always 

 been granted along with the castle, as a dowry, in olden times, to 

 the Queens of England. In reply to Mr. Burgess's enquiry where 

 the fish-pond and mill belonging to the castle were situated, Mr. 



