104 The Fiftieth General Meeting. 
a Celtic. word meaning wood—and that as Silchester is the city in 
the wood, Silbury is the “ bury ” in the wooded valley. In support 
of this derivation he adduced Selborne, Selworthy, and Selwood. 
After many of the Members had climbed to the top the route was 
resumed for BISHOPS CANNINGS CHURCH, where a _ paper 
describing the architectural features of the building was read by 
Mr. C. E. Pontinc! This brought the programme to a close, and 
Devizes was shortly afterwards reached after a very pleasant day’s 
excursion, on which the weather had been kinder throughout the day 
than the somewhat threatening aspect of the morning had promised, 
At THE CONVERSAZIONE, held in the Town Hall at 8.30, at 
which about fifty members were present, Mr. W. HEwarp BELL 
took the chair, in the absence of Mr. Maskelyne. The first paper read 
was one on “ THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE WYLYE VALLEY,” ” 
by Mr. J. U. Powe t, which will be found in this number of 
the Magazine. This, after an interlude with a song, was followed 
by a paper read by the Rey. E. H. Gopparp for Mr. A. D. PASsMORE 
on certain ‘* ANTIQUITIES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEAR 
SWINDON,” which were exhibited in a case to illustrate his re- 
marks. Mr. E. A. RAWLENCE then read a valuable paper on 
‘PREHISTORIC INTERMENTS AT PORTON,’? recently exca- 
vated by himself, the fine cinerary urn obtained from one of them, 
of a shape which is not quite matched by any other Wiltshire 
specimen, being exhibited on the table as he spoke. As both these 
papers will be printed later on in the Magazine, nothing more need 
here be said of them. 
FRIDAY, JULY 17ru. 
The excursion arranged for the day was a long one, and the 
party left Devizes at 9.30, the first stop being at POTTERNE. Here 
Mr. H. Braxspear, F.S.A., discoursed on the architecture, and 

' Mr. Ponting’s paper on Bishops Cannings Church is printed in Devizes 
Gazette, Aug. 20th, 1908. 
2 An abstract of this paper is given in Devizes Gazette, September 8rd, 1903. 
’ Mr. Rawlence’s paper is printed in full in the Wilts County Mirror, 
July 24th, 1903. 

