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Rh Mr. Albert Way presented from Monsieur Joseph-Octave Delepierre,—1. Précis des Annales de Bruges, par Joseph-Octave Delepierre. 8vo. Bruges, 1835.—2. Précis Analytique des Documens qui renferme le dépot des archives de la Flandre Occidentale à Bruges, par Octave Delepierre. Vol. i—iii., Bruges, 1840, 1842. Deuxième Série. Tome i. 8vo. Bruges, 1843; and Mr. C. R. Smith from Dr. Bernhard Köhne, Die auf die Geschichte der Deutschen und Sarmaten bezliglichen Römischen Münzen. Par Bernhard Köhne, 8vo. Berlin, 1844.

Mr. C. R. Smith exhibited a coloured drawing, by Mr. John Alfred Barton, of the painting on the wall of Godshill church, in the Isle of Wight, and one forwarded by Mr. Robert Elliott of a fresco painting recently discovered in pulling down an old house in Chichester, the property of Mr. Mason. The painting is in two compartments, the upper of which represents a view of a row of houses; the lower, figures of birds and flowers. The date is apparently that of the sixteenth century. Mr. Smith also exhibited a drawing by Miss Sabina Heath, of Andover, of the two urns and other antiquities taken from the barrow on Winterslow Down, near Sarum, by the Rev. A. B. Hutchings. Mr. Charles Spence exhibited a rubbing from Anthony church, Cornwall, of the monumental brass of Margery Arundel, an ancestor of the far-famed Richard Carew, the author of the Survey of Cornwall. Mr. T. C. Neale exhibited an earthen vessel found at Chelmsford in digging the foundation of the Savings Bank. A drawing of this vessel by Mr. Repton, together with drawings of other antiquities in the Chelmsford and Essex museum, Mr. Neale states, he intends to have lithographed, to accompany a catalogue of the collection.

The following communication was read from Mr. Henry Norris of South Petherton:—

"On the 23rd ult., as a boy was ploughing in an elevated spot of ground called Stroudshill, near Montacute, a village about five miles hence, he turned up between seventy and eighty iron weapons, which at first sight appeared to be sword-blades, but on closer inspection, seemed more probably to be very long javelin heads, from the total absence of any thing like a hilt, as well as from the circumstance that each of them has a socket, or the remains of one, evidently intended for a shaft. Those that are in the most perfect state are about two and a-half feet long, their greatest breadth one inch and three quarters. They were found in a mass, covered over with a flat stone, and are in such a corroded state, that there can be no doubt of their being of high antiquity; this is rendered more probable from the fact that the field in which they were discovered is continuous with Hamdon hill, the site of a British Roman encampment, where numerous remains in iron and bronze have been found, such as coins, arrow-heads, fibulæ. &c. The weapons above alluded to are of very rude manufacture. A sketch of one is here subjoined."

Mr. G. R. Corner, F.S.A., informed the Committee that Mr. George Woollaston, of Welling, has recently discovered some fine fresco paintings on the walls and window-jambs of the church of East Wickham, Kent. Mr. Woollaston is now engaged in making tracings of these paintings, which he offers to lay before the Association at the proposed meeting at Canterbury. They consist of a double