102 The Fiftieth General Meeting. 
this cup will be printed in the Magazine. After an interval, 
during which songs and a violin solo were given, and tea was again 
provided by the kindness of the Mayor, Mr. H. Braksprar, F.S.A., 
read a paper on the RECENT EXCAVATION OF A ROMAN VILLA 
AT BOX, which will appear at a later page. This concluded the 
business of the evening, and the company dispersed. 
THURSDAY, JULY 16ru. 
Leaving Devizes at 10.15 the carriages proceeded without stop 
to Shepherd’s Shore, where the company alighted and walked a 
little distance along the rampart of the WANSDYKE towards Tan 
Hill. At this point Mr. Hewarp Bett gave an excellent account 
of the result of General Pitt Rivers’ excavations in the dyke, and 
of the facts to be deduced therefrom. He inclined to the belief 
that it was erected by the Romano-British population as a defence 
against the Saxons advancing by the line of the Thames Valley. 
A leaflet drawn up by Mrs. Cunnington noting “ Points of Interest 
on the Road,” called the attention of the Members to the ancient 
sunken road known as the HAREPATH or HARPUT WAY, running 
towards Rybury Camp across the line of the modern road above 
Bishops Cannings, and also to the well-preserved piece of the 
ROMAN ROAD from Bath to Cunetio making towards Silbury, 
close to the seventh miléstone, before reaching Beckhampton. 
On arriving at AVEBURY the party at once proceeded to the fine 
old MANOR-HOUSE, kindly thrown open to them by Caprarn and 
Mrs. JENNER, the latter of whom showed them over the whole 
house. Its various features, the front of 1601, and the earlier 
Elizabethan work at the back, the plaster ceilings and fireplaces, 
were pointed out by Mr. C. E. Pontine, and the company then 
explored the garden and viewed the fine circular PIGHON HOUSE 
in the farm-yard adjoining—a structure which deserves more 
careful preservation. After luncheon, at which the company 
numbered sixty-six, THE CHURCH was visited, and its extremely 
interesting features, the Saxon windows, and other points of 
interest, were dwelt on by Mr. C. E. Pontinc. Lorp AVEBURY 
had promised to be present and to speak on the subject of the 

