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 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. 155 something of the kind worthy of notice miglit have been discovered. I may, however, perhajis, mention one or two trifling things which have come to light. In opening the ground near the foundation of the northern tower pier, in order to put in concrete, the fragments of several figures were found. They appear to have formed part of a group, as I should conceive of the salutation, the head of the Virgin being met with, and the figure of an angel. The latter nearly perfect, with the exception of the head and arms, the drapery in a very fine and beautiful style, apparently of the Decorated period. These fragments retain some portions of red paint upon them. I also observed the other day in pulling down the wall of the south aisle, a portion of an incised coffin lid, which had been built in. It represented a cross, on the sides of the shaft of which were represented a sword and dagger. With these exceptions I have not observed any thing worthy of notice (though I have been on the look out for such objects) with which I was not acquainted before, and which were not obvious, but should any thing in this line be further discovered I shall be most happy to communicate it to you.*' A plaster cast of the diminutive monumental figure of a knight, in the church of Mappowder, CO. Dorset, has been presented to the museum of the Institute by the Rev. Charles W. Bingham, of Bingham's Meleombe. Mr. Bingham forwarded with it the following remarks : — " I need not accompany it with any details, as allusion has been so lately made to it in an able paper in a recent number of the Journal (vol. iii. pp. 234 — 239) on a similar effigy in the church of Horsted Keynes, in the county of Sussex. " I cannot, however, forbear from mentioning that I consider myself, archse- ologically speaking, to have been peculiarly fortunate in having been per- mitted to aid in the restoration and preservation of both these very interest- ing remains of antiquity. "When appointed for a short period, in the year 1838, to the curacy of Horsted Keynes, I found the little knight there in a sad state of neglect and peril. He was thrown aside amongst a variety of lumber under the tower of the church, and perhaps would have sustained still more damage than he had but for the abundant coats of whitewash which he had received. I instantly freed him from his prison, and, after carefully cleaning, caused him to be fixed in the niche in the chancel, which I am glad to find the author of the paper in the Journal agrees with myself in supposing to have been his original position. Reqtiiescat in j^ace. I would just remark, in passing, that there were evident traces of ancient colour on some parts of his armour, which the author of the paper seems to have been unable fully to make out. "On my attention being called to the existence of this other little effigy, in Mappowder church, I immediately paid him a visit, and found him, still apparently in his original niche indeed, but much mutilated, the head being severed from the body, and a portion of tlic mattras broken away. Through the kindness of the rector, the Rev. J. B. Allen, I have been permitted to