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The Forty-Sixth General Meeting. 



It was illustrated by a large collection of his finds on those sites, 

 including two stone caps, a quantity of fragments of pottery, glass, 

 &c, bronze fibulae, armilkc, &c, iron knife, and shear blades, a 

 remarkable specimen of what in Devonshire would be called a 

 " two-bill," shale for making ornaments, &c, from, sandal oleats, 

 a very large round pewter dish, and many other objects — 

 altogether a very interesting collection, indeed, of relics of the 

 Roman period. 



At the close of the meeting Mr. Medlicott, on behalf of the 

 Society, thanked the Local Secretary — Mr. Flower — for the great 

 trouble he had taken to make the Meeting a success. 



THUESDAY, JULY 6th. 



Leaving Amesbury at 9.30 the route for this day lay straight 

 down the Avon Yalley, taking the various Churches, &c, on the way. 



The first stop was at BULFORD CHURCH, a building which is 

 whitewashed inside and covered with ivy outside, but retains a 

 good many architectural features of interest. Here, as throughout 

 this day's expedition, Mr. Harold Brakspear acted as archi- 

 tectural guide. The very pretty little Elizabethan chalice was 

 exhibited and much admired. 



Having seen the Church the party stepped across the road to 

 THE MANOR, with its Elizabethan front a good deal altered in 

 later times. The present occupier, and late owner — for the War 

 Office is now the landlord here — Mr. J. L. Hill, most kindly showed 

 the party over the garden and. the house. In the former the most 

 notable thing, perhaps, was an unusually large specimen of 

 Aristolochia Sip ho, and in the house two admirable portraits by Sir 

 Peter Lely of the Duke of York and Ann Hyde, which have been 

 in the house since they were first given to Mr. Duke of that day. 

 Here also in the hall is a fine specimen of the extremely rare 

 White's Thrush ( Turdus Whitei) , shot near Southampton, a bird 

 of which only two or three examples are known to have occurred 

 in this country. 



MILSTON CHURCH, another practically unrestored building, was 

 the next point on the programme. Here the Be v. C. S. Ruddle 



