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THE SIXTIETH GENEEAL MEETING 1 



OF 



THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY, 



HELD AT DEVIZES, August 11th to 16th, 1913, 



In conjunction with the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting 



of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 



W. Heward Bell, Esq., F.S.A., F.G.S., President of the Society. 



W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq, F.R.S, D.Sc, F.S.A., President of the 



Cambrian Archaeological Association. 



Although the meeting of 1912 had been held at Devizes, it was 

 decided that the joint meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological 

 Association with our own Society should also be held at that place, 

 partly because it is the most central position in the county, but 

 chiefly because Mr. B. H. Cunnington, at whose instance the in- 

 vitation to visit Wilts was given to the Cambrian Association, had 

 undertaken the veiy onerous task of Local Secretary to the joint 

 meeting of the two Societies. 



The proceedings on Monday, August 11th, were limited to the 

 meeting of the Committee of the Cambrian Association in the 

 Council Chamber in the evening. The President of our own Society 

 was unable to be present at the meeting, and Prof. Boyd Dawkins 

 acted as President of the two Societies throughout the proceedings. 



Tuesday, August 12th. 



On this, the first day's excursion, about a hundred and fifty 

 members of the two societies started from the Market Place at 

 9 a.m. in five big motor char-a-bancs, and a long line of private 

 cars. The first halt was at Shepherds' Shore, where Mr. H. E- 



1 A very full and accurate account of the proceedings of the meeting was 

 given in the Wiltshire Gazette, August 14th and 21st, 1913, and it was also 

 reported at some length in the Wiltshire Times, and Wiltshire News. The 

 best and fullest account is, however, printed in Archceologia Cambrensis, 

 6th Series, XIV., pp. 113-204. 



