146 Thr Fifty-aecond General Mectiny. 



splendid series of flint implements- — Palaeolithic and Neolithic — 

 from the neighbourhood of Marlborough, but there are also a 

 number of valuable Bronze Age implements, urns, &c., and a very 

 extensive collection of Roman coins, and cases of Roman antiquities 

 from Cunetio and elsewhere, some of them of a remarkable 

 character. There are also cases of fossils and of ethnoghrapical 

 objects of various kinds, but the strength of the museum lies in 

 the stone, lironze, and Roman series. 



At the EVENING MEETING there was ])ut a scanty attendance 

 of Members, only twenty-three being present; the counter at- 

 tractions of the college concert, unfortunately fixed for the same 

 evening, proving too strong for many of those who had been present 

 on the previous evening. In the al»sence of tlie President and 

 Vice-Presidents, MR. C. PENRUDDOCKE was voted to the chair, 

 and the proceedings began with the reading by THE REV. C. V- 

 GODDARD of a digest of MR. STALLYBRASS'S paper on 

 EXCAVATIONS AT CHILMARK, which were carried out last year. 

 The objects obtained in these excavations have been divided be- 

 tween the Devizes and Salisbury Museums. 



At this point THE REV. E. H. GODDARD asked leave to bring 

 forward a matter not on the programme. He said that it was 

 reported on good authority that the fifteenth century wooden 

 screen in Great Bedwyn Church, which was some fifteen years ago 

 removed from the chancel arch to the aisle, had been removed 

 from the Church altogether by the new vicar. He urged that 

 the Society ought to pass a resolution deprecating this removal, 

 which could hardly have been necessary from any considerations 

 of providing more room in the Church. MR. R. W. MERRIMANand 

 MR. E. O. P. BOUVERIE spoke on the subject, and the general 

 sense of the meeting being in favour of such a resolution being 

 passed, Mr. Goddard proposed the following : " The Wiltshire 

 Archaeological Society hear with great regret of the reported in- 

 intention to remove the fifteenth century screen from the aisle of 

 Great Bedwyn Church. They hereby express the earnest hope 

 that the screen, as an interesting link in the history of the Church, 

 may continue to be preserved within its walls." This was seconded 



