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greater than would be involved by remaining at the existing 

 centre and enlarging the premises. We earnestly hope that the 

 County Archaeological Society may within a reasonable time possess 

 a Library and Museum worthy of its contents and the position of 

 the Society. 



" Stonehenge. — The question of access to Stonehenge has recently 

 entered on a fresh phase. It would seem that the Commons and 

 Footpaths Preservation Society propose to test the legality of the 

 enclosure, as alleging it to interfere with a public right of way. 

 The opinion of your Committee has ever been that in view of the 

 population recently introduced into a region previously almost 

 uninhabited, some form of protection must be devised to ensure 

 the safety of, perhaps, the most remarkable of our national monu- 

 ments, and that unless adequate protection is afforded, serious 

 injury to Stonehenge is a mere question of time. Your Committee 

 assume that such an event would be deprecated by any society, 

 and by most individuals in the British Isles and elsewhere ; and 

 without venturing to express any opinion on the technical aspect 

 of the question of law and fact about to be raised, they feel bound 

 to express their opinion that the monument has never been so 

 carefully kept as it is at present ; that some form of fence is 

 urgently necessary in the interest of the preservation of the monu- 

 ment, and that none could be less offensive than that which has 

 been adopted. 



" The Magazine. — The recently-issued number of the Magazine 

 contains an unusual number of illustrations, more especially of 

 the Koman villa at Box, for a considerable part of which latter we 

 are indebted to Mr. He ward Bell. There are few ways in which 

 the work of the Society can be more effectually aided than by help 

 of this kind. 



" Monumental Inscriptions. — An important prospectus has just 

 been issued to our Members and others of a volume containing the 

 whole of the monumental inscriptions in the churches, churchyards, 

 Nonconformist chapels, and cemeteries of the Sub-Deanery of 

 Sarum and the Eural Deanery of Wilton (with the exception of the 

 Cathedral), as copied by Mr. T. H. Baker, as well as a description, 



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