30 FIRST QUARTERLY MEETING. 
The Rev. T. F. Dymock gave a brief account of the 
early coinage ofthis country—British—Roman— and Saxon 
—.and exhibited drawings of some of the most remarkable 
specimens of British and Saxon workmanship. He also 
presented a list of all the coins which are known to have 
issued from mints in Somersetshire, from Edward the Elder, 
to Henry HI. This list, with engravings of the coins, and 
also the paper, divested of the matters not relating to 
Somersetshire, are given in the second part. 
Mr. C. E. GıtLes made a few general remarks on Anglo- 
Saxon and Norman architecture, and suggested that the 
most sure distinetion would be found in the masonry, if 
Churchwardens could be persuaded to remove the plaster 
and whitewash, in which the walls are encrusted. He 
then gave a detailed description of two small Somersetshire 
churches, in which he had observed considerable portions 
of Norman work. The portions of this period remaining 
at Thurlbeer, were the nave, arcades, and northern wall of 
the chancel. At Ashill, the north and south doorways, the 
arch between the nave and chancel, and on either side two 
smaller arches in the eastern wall of the nave. He thought 
that by the restoration of the chancel arch, and north and 
south doorways to Thurlbeer, and arcades and corbel table 
to Ashill, two very similar churches would be obtained, 
and that the features remaining to be added to each were 
those which were common to the generality of country 
churches in the middle of the 12th century. Mr. Giles’s 
paper was illustrated with several water-colour drawings of 
portions of the churches of Ashill, Thurlbeer, and Stoke- 
sub-Hamdon. He concluded with a notice of several other 
early churches, which it would be important to examine, as 
containing valuable remains of the 12th, 13th, and 14th 
centuries. 
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