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exhibited some Roman Coins found on Ham Hill, and on 

 the Roman Road whicli nuis through his property at Pres- 

 ton. — Mr. Warry, of East Cliinnock, contributed some 

 beautiful specimens of Moorlsh Potterj, and a box of 

 Moorish Coins — Mr. Watts, of the Mermaid Hotel, sent 

 an ancient Roman Vase, dug up at Ham Hill some years 

 ago ; it was in a perfect State of preservation, and wlien 

 discovered was fiUed witli copper coins, chiefly of the later 

 Roman Emperors. — Mr. Babington, of Sherborne, con- 

 tributed twenty Ammonites, illustrative of the Geology of 

 Sherborne. — Mr. W. Stuckey contributed a local curiosity, 

 in the shape of a venerable copper tea-kettle, which was 

 the first ever used in the parish of Muchelney ; and some 

 antique silver spoons, date of 1673. — Rev. G. Fagan, 

 Rector ^of Kingweston, exhibited some very rare and in- 

 teresting curiosities ; a Monumental Tablet from Thebes, 

 in Egypt, of the date of the Ptolemies, representing the 

 judgment of the deceased. — Mr. Britton, of Butleigh, ex- 

 hibited the figure from a crucifix, and a death's head, ('both 

 in Ivory^, found in the old chapel of the Magdalen Alms 

 House, at Glastonbury ; an old glass, containing a crucifix 

 in wood, and other figures, many years in the possession of 

 a family at Kingsdon ; and Fossils. — ]\Ir. E. Batten con- 

 tributed a curious sketch of Porter's Tomb, Rampisham, 

 with the bas-relief representing the murder of Thomas a' 

 Becket. — ^Ii*. Alfred Gillett, a case of shells, &c. — 

 Mr. ViNiNG showed four fine specimens of conglomerated 

 fossils, dug up in Marston !Magna. Two of these were cut 

 and beautlfully polished. Also, a turtle stone (polished), 

 found in the Backwater, at Weymouth. — Mr. W. FroOKS, 

 of Sherborne, contributed a carved stone cross, with eight 

 carved figures, representing the Crucifixion, Virgin, &c. 

 This is a very curious and interesting piece of sculpture, 



