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described by the Eev. E. H. Goddard. Dr. St. John Hope, who 

 followed, held that the great wooden screen and loft which enclose 

 the choir was not the rood loft at all, but the pulpitum, and that 

 the rood screen proper stood where the modern screen now stands, 

 behind the altar. As to the annexe which once existed on the 

 south side of the choir, he regarded it as certainly the canons' 

 vestry. The buttresses, which were extended to form two walls 

 of the vestry, were set back when the vestry was pulled down. 

 Sir Henry Howorth then spoke on the unexplained divergence of 

 the English and French styles at the end of the Decorated period. 

 Up to that time the development of architectural styles in the 

 two countries was practically the same. With the advent of the 

 Perpendicular in England and the Flamboyant in France they 

 diverged. He thought that the closer connection at this time with 

 Flanders, where so much of the stained glass was produced, might 

 account for the prevalence in England of the great Perpendicular 

 windows. 



After lunch at the "Monastery Gardens" some of the members 

 made their way up to Bratton Camp, whilst the main body journeyed 

 round by road to BATTLESBUKYT CAMP, where Dr. Boyd 

 Dawkins spoke on the uses of the great hill camps, 1 which he 

 regarded as places of refuge both for the people and their flocks 

 in time of danger, and perhaps places of residence for some portion 

 of the year for the population of the immediate neighbourhood, 

 placed on the edge of the downs close to the valley below. Colonel 

 Morgan, who was then called on, said that from its appearance he 

 should assign Bratton Camp to post Koman times, it was probably 

 made by the British under Boman influence. Battlesbury, on the 



1 For Col. Morgan's theory of the age of the Wiltshire Camps see Arch. 

 Camb., 6 Series, xiv., 175 — 177. He contends that Bratton, Yarnbury, and 

 to a less extent, Battlesbury, and other camps, though doubtless originally 

 made and occupied in the Early Iron Age, were reconstructed under the , 

 influence of Roman principles in Romano-British times, and he relies j 

 on the remarkable defences of the entrances of these camps as a proof of 

 this. He contends, too, that the amount of ground " dead " to the ramparts 

 on the slope of the hill was an essential and intentional feature of these 

 camps, " in order to obtain a good sky line at 40 to 50 yards range." He 

 does not think that Silbury could possibly have been a Norman " motte." 



