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national assemblies. On the western side, where the mound 

 has been levelled and the ditch filled in, the church stands, 

 together with a farmhouse and its accompanying fold-yard 

 and buildings. These break the continuity of the circle, and 

 the church and the buildings, with the walls around, show 

 the use to which the huge Sarsen stones have been put, 

 which once formed the sacred ring. Within this ring have 

 stood two other circles, some stones of which remain ; and 

 again, a cave or cell within one of these, all which are accu- 

 rately laid down in the instructive paper already referred to. 

 After carefully examining the circle, the Members visited 

 the parish church, which contains a very interesting Rood 

 screen, and the remains of the Rood loft, and the access to it, 

 as well as an ancient Hagioscope, or squint. It was a subject 

 of regret that a church which presents so many interesting 

 features in its architecture, should, in these days of church 

 restoration, remain in its old and unsightly condition, blocked 

 up with huge pews, which are now almost universally 

 condemned. From Avebury the ^lembers walked to the 

 vast artificial mound of Silbury, lately the object of such 

 interest, when an attempt was made in the autumn of last 

 year to ascertain the approximate date of its structure, by 

 digging into the hill horizontally, to find traces of the 

 ancient Roman road from Bath to Marlborough, upon which 

 the hill was supposed to have been cast up, and therefore 

 more recent than the Roman road. This, however, passes 

 just to the south of Silbury, and no traces of any road could 

 be found at the base of the mound or within it ; but the 

 course of the Roman road was clearly evident just to the 

 south of the hill, and the bed of the road exposed by 

 successive sections, at intervals of a hundred yards. The 

 course was pointed out from the top of the hill, and the party, 

 having surveyed the line of the Roman road from its summit 

 and also traced the line of the Wansdyke which is visible 



