28 FIRST QUARTERLY MEETING. 
Curning Feeling. 
The Rev. F. WARRE read a paper on an ancient earth- 
work on the hill above the church of Norton-Fitzwarren, 
and presented a plan of the same. Both will be found in 
the second part. 
Roman Remains at Combe St. Nicholas. 
Mr. R. WALTER (of Stoke-sub-Hamdon) read an inter- 
esting paper onsome Roman remains at Combe St. Nicholas, 
accidentally discovered about 40 years since ; and exhibited 
drawings, (of one of which we have given a coloured 
lithograph) beautifully executed, of two tessellated pave- 
ments which had then been excavated. The patterns 
were tastefully and elaborately worked. The centres of 
the pavements were composed of tesser&, or cubes, of half 
an inch square, and the borders of larger cubes of an inch 
square. The patterns were at first very perfect, and the 
colours vivid and fresh, but they were soon despoiled by visi- 
tors’ depredations, and in the first winter the surfaces were 
lifted by frost, and on the succeeding thaw the whole fell 
to pieces. Both pavements were bounded by walls of rough 
stone stuccoed with a very hard cement, on which were some 
patches of colour- The object of this paper was to record 
the particulars of these interesting remains, and to direct 
the attention of the Society to the spot, where it was pro- 
bable, and nearly certain, that other pavements, and some 
of greater magnitude, still remained undiscovered. Those 
mentioned were only six feet wide, and were probably 
small rooms for baths or sudatories, which it was reasonable 
to conclude were not the only rooms of the sort, nor con- 
structed in such a spot, far from any known Roman station, 
without some larger rooms near them. The probability 
