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account of Bury Hill, but that gentleman thought the evening too 

 far advanced, and proposed to reserve his remarks for the following 

 night. The company then accepted the hospitable invitation of the 

 Mayor and Mayoress of Andover to partake of tea and coffee, which 

 were served in the Council Chamber, and this terminated the first 

 day's proceedings. 



SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16th. 



This day's excursion was devoted to the south-eastern portions of 

 Wiltshire; and at nine o'clock some forty excursionists assembled 

 at the Town Hall, and started for Pen ton Mewsey, where they were 

 met by the Rev. W. H. Simcox (Rector of Weyhill), who most 

 obligingly pointed out the objects of chief interest in the Church, 

 of which a fourteenth century window and the bell-turret were most 

 admired by the archaeologists. Thence to Weyhill, where again 

 Mr. Simcox acted as cicerone, and where again there was much of 

 interest to delay the visitors, the chancel roof, the windows, and 

 certain carved stones let into the wall giving rise to much discussion. 

 The next move was to Ludgershall, where the Rev. W. H. Awdry 

 (Rector of the parish) took the party in hand and pointed out the 

 various objects which he had so ably described the previous evening. 

 The. Castle was the first place examined, and here Mr. Awdry called 

 attention to the traces which remained of the outer and inner circles 

 of the ancient fortress, and gave it as his opinion that in the rude 

 and massive fragments of the building certain portions of herring- 

 bone masonry suggested Roman formation; though this was not 

 universally accepted ; but all agreed that the window was un- 

 doubtedly Norman. The banks and ditches encircling this castle 

 are still of formidable dimensions; the well, too, still remains, 

 measuring 110 feet in depth. Proceeding round the encampment 

 Mr. Awdry now conducted the party to the curious old cross, with 

 its much-mutilated and weather-worn sculpture, and told how this 

 ancient relic once had a narrow escape of being used as building 

 material, having been rescued, after its demolition had begun, about 

 thirty years ago, by the then curate of the parish. From the cross 

 the visitors were conducted to the sites — and only the sites, for no 



