32 SECOND QUARTERLY MEETING. 
Second Quarterly Meeting held at Bridgwater, April 10th,1850. 
The Right Honorable the Earl of Cavan, Viee President, 
in the Chair. 
Plurning Flerting. 
HE CHaAırmAn having opened the meeting with a 
suitable address, Mr. W. STRADLING read a paper 
on the Turf-Moors lying between Glastonbury and the 
Bristol Channel. The same is given verbatim in the second 
part. 
The Rev. F. WARRE read a paper on the distincetion 
between Anglo-Saxon and Norman Architecture. The 
argument being, that where in early Norman Churches, 
details are found very different from those common in that 
or any later style, they may be reasonakly referred to the 
Saxon period. The Rev. gentleman expressed his belief 
that relics of Saxon work so intermixed with Norman, are 
by no means so rare as has of late years been generally 
supposed. He further argued—from the close connexion 
with Rome of the Anglo-Saxon Church during so many 
centuries, the frequent visits both of princes and priests 
to the eternal city, and the descriptions of Saxon 
authors and illuminations in Saxon Missals,—that it was 
highly probable that the style of Saxon buildings was 
a variety of Romanesque, probably a rude imitation of 
Lombardic, with some intermixture of Byzantine details, 
bearing no greater resemblance to the Norman than was 
necessarily the consequence of their common origin from 
the classical Roman. 
Mr. Jomn BRoWwneE exhibited a specimen of British gold 
ring-money, dug out of the brick-clay at Hamp, close to 
