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Rh to preserve all such objects, and deposit them either in the Museum of Welsh Antiquities, now established at Caernarvon, or in the British Museum.

A letter from Mr. Charles J. Palmer, of Great Yarmouth, to Mr. King, was read, stating that the Yarmouth, Beccles, and Dix railway, as now proposed, will run along the low ground at the foot of Burgh Castle, and suggesting, although no part of it will be necessarily touched, that some of the Committee should communicate with the engineer, Captain Moorsom, and request him to take care that no wanton damage be done to the old walls. Upon this communication. Dr. Bromet, who had undertaken, on the first alarm, to enquire as to the probable fate of the above-named almost unique specimen of Roman fortification, reported that there was reason to doubt whether authority would be granted for the railway above-mentioned, and the project has been subsequently laid aside.

A letter to Dr. Bromet, from Mr. Henry J. Stevens of Derby, was then read, offering to present to the Association a set of casts taken from some ancient sculptured stones, formerly parts of the church of St. Alkmund, in that town, and of which Dr. Bromet gave an account to the Committee on the 13th of November last; Mr. Stevens observed that the drawings and written description, which he proposes to communicate to the Committee, will not afford such satisfactory information regarding these sculptures as might be supplied by these fac-similes. In reply to this offer, the Secretaries were instructed to give the thanks of the Committee to Mr. Stevens, and to state, that, as the Association does not yet possess a suitable place of deposit for such cumbrous objects, the Committee must decline the offer of the casts, but that they would gratefully accept the drawings and written description.

Mr. Thomas Kent, of Padstow, Cornwall, communicated, through Mr. Charles R. Smith, a sketch of an inscribed slab of granite, described as apparently of the Romano-British period, which now supplies the place of a gatepost, at a spot a few miles distant from Padstow. The stone measures about 6 feet in length, and about 13 inches by 10 inches square. The proprietor of the land promises to remove it to a more secure situation.

Mr. Way laid before the Committee a sketch of another inscribed memorial, communicated by the Rev. William Haslam, of St. Perranzabuloe, which likewise now serves as a gatepost, in the parish of St. Clement's, near Truro. This primitive and simple monument is formed of a roughly-hewn slab of granite, which measures in height 8 feet from the surface of the