38 THIRD QUARTERLY MEETING. 
Strom Day. 
HE second day was devoted to an excursion for the 
purpose of visiting the objects ofarchaeological interest 
in the neighbourhood. A party of nearly a hundred met 
at the village of Nunney, three miles from Frome, and 
inspected the ruins of the old castle ; in the midst of which 
Mr. C.E. GILES communicated such information as had been 
collected by Dr. HARRISON respecting the history of the 
building. The substance of the communication will be found 
in the second part, accompanied by a view of the castle 
in its present state. 
The remains of a Roman Villa, at Whatley, were next 
visited. A cold collation had been provided on the spot 
by the hospitable proprietor, Mr. Shore ; by whose cour- 
tesy the society is presented with the subjoined copy of a 
letter from the pen of the late Rev. John Skinner. 
( Copy.) 
Camerton Parsonage, 
September 10th, 1838. 
Dear Sır, 
Last week when staying at Southfield House 
I availed myself of the opportunity of visiting the Roman 
Pavement you have had opened on your property. And 
was much interested by what I saw, and the anticipation 
of future discoveries, for there can be no doubt, that 
the villa was far more extensive than what is already laid 
open, and that it was accompanied by other buildings of 
the Romans in the immediate vicinity, as well as of the 
Britons ; for the linchets in the adjoining field, and the 
name of that field, Chessil, or Chedsil, prove to demonstra- 
tion the prior occupancy of the Britons; and that this in 
