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work of the best character in situ, the jambs being enveloped in 

 later work. On the north side he assumes that the Roman arch 

 exists hidden away behind later casing. Mr. Talbot's theory is 

 that no such hidden work exists in either case, but that the 

 so-called Roman arch was bodily removed by the Saxon builders 

 from its original situation and placed in jambs of their own 

 building, and that the north aisle is entirely Saxon work rather 

 later than the other. There is a third arch of stone altered into 

 a doorway near the porch. The work Mr. Talbot considers to be 

 amongst some of the most remarkable in England. A visit was 

 afterwards paid to the Blackmore Museum, where the members 

 were gratified by an inspection of that marvellous series of stone 

 implements under the personal guidance of the founder himself, 

 Mr. Blackmore, for whose unwearied exertions in the cause of 

 pre-historic science not only Sarum but the whole of England 

 ought to be grateful. 



With regard to the Tuesday walks there is nothing to chronicle. 

 They have been maintained with more or less spirit throughout 

 the year, but your Secretary has not been favoured with any 

 notes from the members who specially join in them. Are the 

 objects of interest in the Natural History and Archaeology of the 

 neighbourhood exhausted 1 Is it not rather that they teem around 

 us, but that the members' eyes are closed and their senses dull to 

 see them ? How can we galvanize them into life 1 



H. H. wmwooD, 



Hon. Sec. 



