THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"multobum manibus gbande levattje onus."- —Ovid. 



THE TWENTY-NINTH GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



ratltsfjtre Archaeological & Natural ©fetors Soctctg, 



HELD AT ANDOVER, 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August \hth, \§th } and 17 tk, 



1883. 



HE Annual Meeting was held this year at Andover, 1 which, 

 though beyond the borders of the county, offered a warm 

 and hospitable welcome to the Members of the Society, and proved 

 an excellent resting-place from whence to visit the south-eastern 

 portions of Wiltshire, to which the Society had never before pene- 

 trated from any other centre. This was not the first time that the 

 Annual Meeting had been held outside the county, for in 1861 

 Shaftesbury was selected, and proved an excellent basis from whence 

 to explore the south-western districts of Wiltshire. On the present 

 occasion, too, the Meeting, though thinly attended, was eminently 

 successful, and when those parts of Wiltshire which were nearest to 

 Andover had been examined, as was meet, on the first day's ex- 

 cursion, a visit by rail to Silchester and the Vyne, on the last day, 

 proved a special treat to all who were so fortunate as to join in it. 



The proceedings opened with the General Meeting of the Society, 

 at the Town Hall, at two o'clock, for receiving the Report and 



1 The Editor of the Magazine desires to acknowledge the very great assistance 

 he has derived, in preparing the report of this Meeting, from the columns of the 

 Andover Standard, the Andover Advertiser, and the Devizes and Wiltshire 

 Gazette. i 



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