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the section of Middle Lias at the base ; and the coralline nature 

 of the top beds of the Oolite on Hampton Down, were all succes- 

 sively visited and described. The Members of the two Clubs 

 then dined together on their return to Bath, and spent the 

 evening in a discussion on the age of the "Sutton stone" beds 

 at Southerndown. 



Under the last head of Tuesday walks, your Secretary con- 

 gratulates the Club on the energy with which they have been 

 maintained through the year, and the various good results which 

 have flowed from them. In the first place, the excavations going 

 on at the site of the old Abbey of Keynsham, alluded to in the 

 last summary of proceedings, have been as carefully w^atched as 

 the circumstances of the case admitted, and two incised slabs 

 rescued from destruction, and placed in the portico of the Literary 

 and Scientific Institution. One is of an early date in Norman 

 French, and bears the following inscription round its edges : — 

 ISABEL DE PENDELESFOED 

 GIST ICI DEU DEL ALMI EIT MERCI. AMEN. 



PATER ET AVE. 

 Probably to the memory of some benefactress of the Abbey. 

 The second slab which is of later date, with a decorated cross in 

 the centre, bears the following : — 

 HIC JACET WALTERUS JOCE 

 CANONICUS NUPER CUSTOS CAPELLE [SANC]TE 

 ANNE IN THE WODE 

 CUJUS ANIMA PROPICIETUR ALTISSIMUS 



AMEN. 

 Five other incised slabs composed of oolite, and one of Purbeck 

 marble, were found ; one of the oolite slabs was highly calcareous, 

 probably from Portland. Another was broken in several pieces, 

 and had the following elegiac couplet : — 



IN MARSHFIELD NATUS GR.iNT ABBAS ECCE 

 JOHANNES, 



