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: circles, but—to the great disappointment of the Members—at the 
last moment important Parliamentary business prevented his 
leaving London, and he was unable to come. In his absence the 
- Rey. E. H. Gopparp led the party round the vallum pointing out 
the remains of the outer and inner circles, and giving a short 
general account of the structure, mentioning that when some years 
ago a section 6ft. wide was cut through the mound by Mr. TREPPLIN, 
acting for Sir H. B. Mevx, the original surface level was found 
running through from the outside to the “step” which is visible 
in many places half-way down the bank on the inside. This 
original surface had not been disturbed, the brown soil being 
perfectly level and distinct all through under the bank of white 
chalk rubble. A section too of the ditch was cleared out, and it 
was found to have silted up to a depth of eight feet above the 
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original bottom. A considerable number of pieces of red deer horns 
were found in the rubble of the bank—apparently the remains of 
picks used in the work of excavation, and one or two bits of worked 
bone, like fragments of paper-knives. One small bit of British 
pottery was found on the original surface beneath the mound. 
There was thus nothing found during the excavation which went 
f any object of metal proves that it was not of the Bronze Age. 
The Rey. C. V. Gopparb followed with a few words on the recent 
liscovery of a line of standing stones in the “high place” at Gezer, 
in Palestine. After tea at the inn the party drove off past the 
ains of the KENNET AVENUE to Kennet, and on to SILBURY 
Here the Rev. E. H. Gopparp again discoursed shortly 
1 what is known about the hill. Although neither of the eveava- 
os hitherto undertaken—the shaft sunk from the top by the 
uke of Northumberland in 1750, or the tunnel driven into the 
le by the Archwological Institute in 1849—had discovered 
ny thing in the way of an interment, he thought that probably it 
as a sepulchral mound, its great size, covering five acres of ground, 
ing it almost impossible to explore it thoroughly. Mr. SLOPER 
uggested that both in Silchester and Silbury the prefix Sil is from 
