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in the Stonehenge district seems very desirable. The railway 
line proposed to be constructed by the Great Western Company 
from Pewsey to Salisbury will pass very near to many of the 
barrows, earthworks; and more important relics, of which solitude 
and remoteness from any lines of communication have for centuries 
past been the best protectors. In the near future, with a station 
close by Stonehenge, and forty thousand acres or more of land 
about to be acquired for military manceuvres, solitude and remote- 
ness are at an end, and “’Arry at Stonehenge,” as depicted by 
Punch (in August, 1886), is only too likely to become a very 
melancholy reality, even before our next meeting. The matter 
has attracted the attention of some of the leading journals, but no 
suggestion that can be made will prevent the realisation of the 
materialistic schemes alluded to. Education and improved tastes 
must be relied upon for the due preservation of the relics of 
Salisbury Plain, so valuable and so full of interest to archeologists. 
“The cutting and levelling in connection with no less than four 
new short lines of railway in the county at almost one time ought 
to give the geologist many opportunities for further research. 
“The Rev. HE. H. Goddard attended the Congress of Archeological 
Societies at Burlington House in July, 1896, as the representative 
of the Society. 
“The excavation of a disused Roman well by Mr. B. H. 
Cunnington and Mr. J. W. Brooke, near Silbury Hill, has 
recently been recorded in the Magazine. The various relics found 
are described in the article, and they have been placed in the 
Museum. 
“The Committee hopes that the Local Secretaries and all 
Members of the Society will do all in their power to keep up the 
numbers and maintain the reputation of the Society which for 
upwards of forty years has done much to throw light upon the 
antiquities of our county.” 
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