344 Report for 1868. 



" S^ J. Long, 1689, near "Wanborougb, between 1600 and 2000 

 coins found in one eartben vessel. 



" The Dike rampart at Yernditcb (Wilts), is made of gravel. 



" At Farley Castle, 1683, a pavement dug up, opus tessellatum, 

 now at Oxford in Asbmol. Mus. 



" In Weekfield in the parish of Hedington for a mile together, 

 Foundations, Walls, Coins, Coales. 



"At Chippenham, at Derry hill, Coyns found 1680. 



" At Wanborougb, at Winterbourn Monkton, at Old -Sarum, at 

 Shereston. 



" In Sherston fields coyns plowed up — one silver, on the head a 

 chaplet of laurell, Constantin ; on the reverse an angel with a palm 

 branch ; in the left band stretcht out a snake in a ring, under the 

 genius T S E. 



" West of Abury is another entrenchment sett with stones, one 

 whereof makes the end of a barn. 



" My Ld. Pembroke says the stones are of 200 Tun weight each 

 at Abury. (90 tons would be more nearly correct. — Ed.) 



" It would cost 60,000 to raise such a Mount as Silbury, Wilts, 

 'Facit ingens multe sub alto Regis Dercenum terrene ex aggere 

 bustum.' — Yirgil." 



1868. 



^HE General Meeting of the Society for receiving the Report, 

 ^l&fl electing officers for the ensuing year, and other formal 

 business, was held at the Saving's Bank, Devizes, on Friday, Nov. 

 6th, 1868, at 11 o'clock, the Rev. E. Wilton in the chair. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith, one of the Honorary Secretaries, read 

 the following Report : — 



" The Council of the Wiltshire Archseological and Natural 



