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room being 20ft. by 16ft., which seems to have been arched 

 and to have been the middle of a quadrangle of which three 

 walls are seen, one on the north being 165ft. long, another on the 

 west being 120ft. long. These foundations give no sign 

 of a Saxon origin ; they are in a field called Court Garden, 

 that is the garden of the Court House ; the next field being 

 King's Close, a name in no way implying a residence but 

 easily accounted for, as the story of Alfred and Guthrum 

 would be well known in the 13th or 14th centuries from 

 the documents we now possess and from which we 

 also get it. Much more clearly does the name Mudsley or 

 Modesley mark the Mote-ley or meeting field, the open ground 

 on which the Saxon gathering took place. The finds were 

 same silver pennies, some coarse unglazed pottery, a spur, an 

 arrow head, a horse shoe, a curb chain and a pair of compasses. 

 The most important perhaps were a chimney top of the per- 

 pendicular style of ai'chitecture, and a piece of slate tile 

 having a few bars of sacred music scratched upon it.* Whilst 

 the chimney top points to the existence of say a 14th century 

 house, the music in particular, and the evidence here gathered 

 generally, marks this as the capital messuage of the manor of 

 Wedmore, disparked in 1535, and which then, sharing the fate 

 of similar structures, was sold away in 1577 with but 70 acres of 

 good land only, but which originally was simply the country 

 house or grange of the early Deans of Wells. 



Notts on a Roman Eoo.d at Radstock. By J. MoMurtrie, F.G.S. 



(Read 2nd February, 1881.; 



At. one of the excursions of this Society in the autumn of last 

 year, I had the pleasure of conducting the members to that 

 portion of the great Roman road, leading from Bath to Ilchester, 



* Somerset Arcbseological Proceedings, vol. xxxr. 



