206 Excavation of the Houth Lodge Camp, Rushmore Park. 



the breaks made the best of their way to Warminster. And so 

 •ended the Armual Meeting for 1893, a Meeting marked by the 

 great interest taken in tfce Society's proceedings by the inhabi- 

 tants of Warminster and the neighbourhood, by the large numbers 

 attending the meetings and excursions, and by the great activity 

 and liberality of the Local Committee in providing for the comfort 

 and entertainment of those attending — the thanks of the Society 

 ieing especially due to Messrs. Morgan and Bleeck, and to the 

 Hev. J. F. Welsh, who, as Local Secretaries, spared neither time 

 nor trouble to make the Meeting the success it undoubtedly was. 



€faWiott of tfje ^ni\ l^obge Camj, ^u^Ijmoa 



^n Cntrencfjment of tfje Bronze ^ge. 



By Lt.-GENEBAL PiTT-RiVEES, D.C.L., F.R.S., P.S.A.i 



\_Read at the Warminster Meeting of the Society, July 26th, 1893.] 



WAS prevented by illness from excavating in the summer 

 of 1892, but in April, 1893, I returned to the work, 

 iiushmore, owing to the quantity of undisturbed down and wood- 

 land, is so full of ancient earthworks that it will probably take 

 several years before they can be examined with the necessary 

 thoroughness. Although the area is limited, the remains include 

 vestiges of all ages, from the Neolithic to the Roman Age, and the 

 transition from one period to another in a small area, can be better 

 studied than in a larger one, by means of the silting of ditches and 

 the denudation of earthworks. 



I commenced the digging of the year with what I have now 



' The Society is indebted to Gen. Pitt-Rivers for the generous gift of the plates 

 illustrating this paper. 



