536 The Fifty-Fifth General Meeting. 



various objects found during the excavations. Mr. Cunnington 

 also took the opportunity of calling attention to the excavation of 

 Knap Hill Camp, which he was then engaged in carrying out, and 

 to a remarkable iron sword found there, which he exhibited. 



MR. E. 0. P. BOUVERIE then read his "NOTES ON THE 

 HISTORY OF LONGFORD CASTLE," and was followed by THE 

 REV. E. H. GODDARD, who read a paper contributed by THE 

 REV. A. D. HILL, on "THE BOUNDARIES OF DOWNTON." 

 MR. J. J. HAMMOND then read some short notes on the places to 

 be visited the next day, and the proceedings terminated. The 

 spacious Council Chamber was well filled with an assembly of 

 perhaps a hundred and thirty people, and music and refreshments 

 were most kindly provided by the generosity of the Mayor. The 

 large and interesting collection of portraits hanging on the walls, 

 the city maces, of which the great mace is one of the largest in 

 England, the flags, and the long series of charters exhibited by the 

 Corporation, provided material for a most entertaining and in- 

 structive evening. 



THUESDAY, JULY 16th. 



Leaving the County Hotel in breaks at 9.30 a.m. the first halt was 

 at COOMBE BISSETT CHURCH, where THE REV. E. H. GODDARD 

 pointed out the chief features of the building.^ At this point rain 

 began to fall, and continued more or less for the rest of the day. 

 MARTIN CHURCH was the next stopping-place, where again the 

 architectural features were described by MR. GODDARD. ^ The 

 programme had contemplated a walk through the gardens of West 

 Park, by kind permission of Sir Eyre Coote, in order to see the 

 important Eoman inscribed stone brought from Egypt after the 

 Abercromby Expedition, but the rain was falling fast, and the car- 

 riages hurried on past the house,allowing only a momentary glimpse 

 of splendid old Scotch firs and other trees, to ROCKBOURNE, over 

 the Hampshire border, where the buildings known by the names 

 of the " Dormitory " and the " Chapel," now incorporated in farm 



' See Notes by C. E. Ponting, F.S.A., Wilts Arch. Mag., xxvi., 194. 

 - See Notes by C. E. Ponting, F.S.A., Wilts Arch. Mag., xxviii., 17. 



