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other hand, he regarded as of pre-Eoman origin, altered in later 

 times. Mr. Willoughby Gardner agreed that many of the hill 

 camps must be ascribed to a much later period than the ages of 

 stone and bronze to which they had been generally ascribed in the 

 past. His own excavations in North Wales and those of Mi\ and 

 Mrs. Cunnington in Wiltshire tended to this conclusion. Dr. 

 Boyd Dawkins said that all the large camps which he had explored, 

 which like those of Wiltshire were intended to defend not only the 

 people but also their cattle and property, belonged to the early Iron 

 Age, He could not see his way to accept Col. Morgan's theory 

 that Bratton and camps like it showed Roman influence. Allowing 

 for difference of material the Welsh and Wiltshire camps were 

 very much alike. 



Leaving Battlesbury the motors conveyed the party to War- 

 minster, whence, after tea, a special train brought them back to, 

 Devizes at 7.2. 



The ANNIVERSARY DINNER, for members of both societies, 

 took place at the Bear Hotel, at 8.15, and was marked by the 

 singing, in Welsh, by all the Welsh visitors present, of " Hen wlad 

 fy nhadau " (" Land of my Fathers "). 



At the Evening Meeting at 9.15, in the Town Hall, the Rev. E. H. 

 Goddard read a paper, on "THE ANTIQUITIES OF WILTS," 

 designed to give to those to whom Wiltshire was new ground some 

 i general idea of what the county contains in the way of archaeology 

 and medieval antiquities. 1 Refreshments were kindly provided by 

 Mr. W. Heward Bell. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 14th, 



A special train, leaving Devizes at 8.52, conveyed a large 



company to Wylye, where the motors met them and proceeded to 



-YARNBURY CASTLE, where Mr. B. H. Cunnington, standing 



on the rampart, gave an account of the camp and of the Wiltshire 



1 This paper is printed in Archceologia Cambrensis, 6th Series, vol. xiv . 

 (Jan., 1914), pp. 59—86 ; it was also printed in full in the Wiltshire Gazette, 

 and was published separately as a pamphlet, price Ad., at the Gazette 

 Office, Devizes. It will not be printed in the Wilts Arch. Mag. 

 vol. xxxvhi. — no. cxxi. 2 g 



