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The Forty- Seventh General Meeting. 



place with his left hand — as all indeed may see in the figure of him 

 to this day — whilst he went on killing more Danes unconcernedly 

 with his right. 



Having visited the vicarage garden to see the beautif ully panelled 

 socket of the CROSS which formerly stood in the street near the 

 Tolsey, some of the party crossed the road to inspect a house at the 

 rear of the " Rattlebones Inn," said to be the "old Rectory." It 

 is now unoccupied, and is rapidly falling to ruin, and seems not to 

 be known or described — yet, although it was shut up and the inside 

 could not be visited, the most cursory view revealed the fact that 

 there is a hall, windows, and door of good early 15th century date. 

 It is much to be desired that this interesting building could be 

 properly described, and saved from its present condition of im- 

 pending ruin. 



Passing through the Manor Farm yard the party made the circuit 

 of the ramparts of the camp defended by the almost precipitous 

 descent to the valley on one side, and on the others by a strong 

 entrenchment, within which part of the present village stands. 

 What is true of other camps is true of this, that its approximate 

 age could only be fixed by excavations scientifically conducted. 



As the carriages left for Luckington. the view of the village 

 crowning the steep declivity across the narrow valley gave a good 

 idea of the strength of the position in early days when the lower 

 ground was often, no doubt, impassable swamp. 



LUCKINGTON CHURCH has suffered terribly from the "restorer" 

 of 1872, whose zeal left discretion entirely out of sight As Mr. 

 Brakspear, who discoursed on its features, said, it has been a very 

 interesting building, but the chancel and south chapel are now to 

 all appearance new — and the way in which old work was regarded 

 by the architect of the restoration may be judged of by the fact 

 that several interesting stones belonging to this Church are at 

 present in the Society's Museum — whilst the tracery of a good 

 Perpendicular east window and considerable remains of the 15th 

 century reredos in very good condition were seen by the Members 

 in the rectory garden, where they were placed when the present 

 structure, window, and reredos were erected in their place. A 



