16 The Twenty -Seventh Annual Meeting. 



in a large marquee. At its conclusion the President expressed the 

 hearty thanks of the Society to Mr. and Mrs. Fuller for the mag- 

 nificent way in which they had entertained them ; while Mr. Fuller, 

 in reply, cordially welcomed the Society to Chalfield, and assured the 

 company that he had heen delighted so to receive them. Thence a 

 drive to the old house at Wrasall ; then to the Manor House and 

 Chapel of St. Audoen : then to Chapel Plaister ; and then to 

 Monkton Farleigh, where tea and coffee were hospitably provided by 

 the President, closed the excursion, and with it one of the most 

 successful meetings which the Society has ever held. 



ill % "^fea^D^am^^. 



By J. PicTON, Esq., F.S.A. 

 (Read before the British Archjeological Association, al Denizes, August, 1880.) 



^T the Congress of the British Archajological Association at 

 Yarmouth and Norwich last year I read a paper on " Place 

 Names in Norfolk," which has since been published in the Journal. 



The subject is full of interest both to the antiquary and the 

 philologist. Each county has its own peculiarities as to the origin 

 and application of its local nomenclature, and I propose in the few 

 following pages to enquire, as far as the brief space will permit, 

 what light can be thrown by the study of the place-names in 

 Wiltshire on the condition of the district, and the races by whom it 

 has been successively occupied. 



These inquiries have always been attractive, but down to a very 

 recent period they have been pursued in a very empirical fashion. 



