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The Fiftieth General Meeting. 



this cup will be printed in the Magazine. After an interval, 

 during which songs and a violin solo were given, and tea was again 

 provided by the kindness of the Mayor, Mr, H. Brakspear, F.S.A., 

 read a paper on the RECENT EXCAVATION OF A ROMAN VILLA 

 AT BOX, which will appear at a later page. This concluded the 

 business of the evening, and the company dispersed. 



THUBSDAY, JULY 16th. 



Leaving Devizes at 10.15 the carriages proceeded without stop 

 to Shepherd's Shore, where the company alighted and walked a 

 little distance along the rampart of the WANSDYKE towards Tan 

 Hill. At this point Mr, Heward Bell gave an excellent account 

 of the result of General Pitt Bivers' excavations in the dyke, and 

 of the facts to be deduced therefrom. He inclined to the belief 

 that it was erected by the Bomano-British population as a defence 

 against the Saxons advancing by the line of the Thames Valley. 

 A leaflet drawn up by Mrs. Cunnington noting " Points of Interest 

 on the Boad," called the attention of the Members to the ancient 

 sunken road known as the HARE PATH or HARPUT WAY, running 

 towards Bybury Camp across the line of the modern road above 

 Bishops Cannings, and also to the well-preserved piece of the 

 ROMAN ROAD from Bath to Cunetio making towards Silbury, 

 close to the seventh milestone, before reaching Beckhampton. 



On arriving at AVEBURY the party at once proceeded to the fine 

 old MANOR-HOUSE, kindly thrown open to them by Captain and 

 Mrs. Jenner, the latter of whom showed them over the whole 

 house. Its various features, the front of 1601, and the earlier 

 Elizabethan work at the back, the plaster ceilings and fireplaces, 

 were pointed out by Mr. C. E. Ponting, and the company then 

 explored the garden and viewed the fine circular PIGEON HOUSE 

 in the farm-yard adjoining — a structure which deserves more 

 careful preservation. After luncheon, at which the company 

 numbered sixty-six, THE CHURCH was visited, and its extremely 

 interesting features, the Saxon windows, and other points of 

 interest, were dwelt on by Mr. C. E. Ponting. Lord Avebury 

 had promised to be present and to speak on the subject of the 



