134 The Thirty-Fifth General Meeting. 
any rate of pre-historic date; that, whether they were the work of 
the Early Britons, the Celts, or the Belgz, they were, at all events, 
pre-Roman. But now, in removing a considerable portion of the 
bank at Bokerley Dyke, and exposing the original surface on which 
the excavated soil had been placed, General Pitt-Rivers has come 
upon large quantities of Roman pottery, and several hundred Roman 
coins of late date. This cannot be gainsaid, and we may take it as 
proved that Bokerley Dyke, which Canon Jones, when writing on 
this subject, considered to be the oldest of the ancient Wiltshire 
ditches, and whose date he attributed to some two or three centuries 
before the Christian era, must henceforth be allowed to be of late 
Roman, if not of post-Roman times. We would add that this 
thoroughly scientific and exhaustive examination, by means of several 
sections cut through one of the old boundary ditches, under the eye 
of so experienced an engineer, cannot be too highly commended, 
and we would say, all honour to General Pitt-Rivers, who has set 
at rest for ever the question of date as regards Bokerley Dyke, and 
has solved one of the riddles which it is the object of our Society to 
explain. 
“In conclusion, we would add that there are many more riddles 
before us which may yet tax our utmost endeavours, and that a 
vast amount of material still awaits the careful examination of our 
Members in all parts of the county. Your Committee trusts that 
as the older Members, who have done such good work for our 
Society, drop off (and we are very rapidly losing them), younger 
and more active workers will come forward to take their places 
and carry on the work with renewed diligence; for we are well 
assured that great and continued and prolonged efforts must be 
made in all parts of the county before we can claim to have in 
any degree mastered the ancient and the natural history of Wiltshire. 
This is a matter which the Committee earnestly entreats its Members, 
scattered over the whole of the county, seriously to consider, for it 
is only by the prolonged and repeated efforts of the many that the 
objects which we all, as Members of the Society, have at heart ean 
be successfully accomplished.” 
The Rev. W. P. 8. Binanam, in moving the adoption of the 
