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old Manor House of Berwick St. Leonard at the Ridge, Chilmark, 

 Mr. Stallybrass, who was in charge of the work, discovered the 

 remains of several Romano-British pits, and at Capt. Morrison, 

 M.P.'s expense, several of these have been very carefully excavated 

 by Mr. Stallybrass, who had the advantage of working under Dr. 

 Gowland at Stonehenge. The ditches of a camp on the hill above 

 have also been examined by the same gentleman. A selection of 

 the objects from these excavations has been kindly presented by 

 the above gentlemen to our Museum. 



" We hope in a future number of the Magazine to publish full 

 accounts of both these excavations. At Malmesbury Abbey Mr. 

 H. Brakspear, by means of private subscriptions, has carried out 

 certain excavations in the hope of recovering the plan of the 

 destroyed portions of the Abbey Church. The foundations, how- 

 ever, had been so thoroughly eradicated that the result was very 

 disappointing. 



" In all three of the abovementioned cases the cost of the exca- 

 vations was discharged by private generosity. The Society gladly 

 welcomes such important and necessary work, more especially as 

 its income has never been sufficient to justify its undertaking the 

 very expensive work of excavation on its own account. 



The adoption of the Report having been moved and seconded by 

 Mr. J. P. Haden and Mr. C. H. Talbot, Lord Bath, in putting 

 it to the meeting, after expressing a hope that the Museum Ex- 

 tension Fund would receive a more general support than it had 

 hitherto, and that substantial progress might shortly be made in 

 that matter, went on to say that he was glad that the Society took 

 the view that it did as to the absolute necessity for the preservation 

 of Stonehenge. As to the much-decried wire fence, everyone who 

 had been there lately — as he himself had — knew that at a com- 

 paratively short distance from the monument the fence could not 

 be seen at all. 



The Officers of the Society were then re-elected on the proposition 

 of"~ the Rev. J. Hamlyn Hill, D.D., seconded by Mr. R, Stone. 



