136 The Thirty-Fifth General Meeting. 
every confidence that this Society, which rightly and justly had such 
regard for the name of Cunnington, would endorse the proposal. As 
additional Local Secretaries he proposed Mr. Schomberg for the dis- 
trict of Melksham, and Mr. Fred Goldney for that of Chippenham, in 
the place of Mr. Noyes. Healso proposed that Mr. C. F. Hart and 
Dr. Bowes be added to the Committee; and that Mr. Swithin 
Waylen and Mr, Wilshin (of the Capital and Counties Bank, 
Devizes) be the Auditors. The Ruy. A. C. Smirn seconded the 
proposition, which was agreed to. 
The Rev. A. C. Smiru then read extracts from some letters he 
had received from General Pitt-Rivers, showing exactly what had 
been done in the examination of Bokerley Dyke. ‘These letters, 
remarked Mr. Smith, were extremely interesting, and showed them 
most plainly and quite unanswerably that Bokerley Dyke must have 
been gost Roman, or old Roman at the very latest. But he was 
sorry to say that the fact of Bokerley Dyke, the most southerly 
ditch in Wiltshire, having been proved to be post Roman, seemed 
to open up the possibility that Wans Dyke was not so old as they 
had always thought before. That they could not prove without an 
actual examination of the Dyke; and he for one would not give up 
the idea that it was pre-historic and pre-Roman, until some one had 
found himself able to prove that it was of later date. But they 
would never rest satisfied in the Society now until they had made 
the experiment, and he hoped that some day they would set to work, 
and under proper direction, dig such a section through Wans Dyke 
as would set that question at rest. Some people thought it was 
very easy to open a barrow, but it was not so, especially in the case 
of a large one. That, however, was an easy matter in comparison 
with making a section through Wans Dyke. To accomplish that 
properly would require a thoroughly competent engineer, and they 
must have either General Pitt Rivers, or some one almost as good, 
before they attempted the work. 
The Members of the Society then left the Town Hall, and in- 
spected the parish Church. Here they were met by the Vicar, the. 
Rev. Canon Duncan, who most kindly described the principal 
features ‘of the building, and gave an outline of its history. He 
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