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Coventry was fixed for the Archaeological Day, and the 

 Club met at St. Mary's Hall, on Monday, August 4th, 

 1879. The hall, muniment-room, kitchen, crypt, &c., 

 were described by Mr. Fretton, the Archseological Secre- 

 tary of the Club, visiting in turn the well-known and 

 beautiful churches of St. Michael and Holy Trinity. 

 Crossing over to the Benedictine Priory Church, the 

 existing remains were examined, and the Free Grammar 

 School, once the hospital of St. John, the east window of 

 which was much admired. The old houses in Well 

 Street, with their curiously carved bargeboards, the site 

 of Well Street Gate and its adjoining magazine tower, 

 the site of the city wall and Hill gate, the recently 

 restored Church of St. John the Baptist, the remains of 

 the monastery of the Carmelites, or White Friars, and of 

 the adjacent city walls and other places of interest 

 were visited. 



The last Meeting of the season was held at Dudley, 

 on Tuesday, September 17th, 1879. The small party 

 drove to Sedgley Beacon, where the Aymestry limestone 

 is exposed and some highly fossiliferous Ludlow rocks, 

 and returned over the Wren's Nest and Dudley Castle 

 hills, visiting the well known workings in the Wenlock 

 limestone, famous for its fossils, and an interesting 

 section of the thick Coal measures not far from Sedgley, 

 at the northern extremity of the Wren's Nest hill, 

 cropping out at the surface, not often seen. This 

 is not a single bed of coal, but is composed of thirteen 

 distinct beds, which in the centre of the Coal field meet 

 together and are there worked. The Geologists were 

 thus able to see the entire series of the Upper Silurian 

 rocks, and a portion of the Carboniferous. 



