22 ELEVENTII ANN UAL MEETING. 



ployed, more or less, by its liberal and spirited proprie- 

 tors. Proceediug through the village, the quarry was 

 visited, from which several of the saurians in the British 

 Museum, as well as others, have been taken. Mr. Clark 

 mentioned that Dr. Wright, of Cheltenham, found in the 

 quarry, a fevv days ago, a coral — the Isastrea BIurcMsoncB — 

 and it was remarkable that he had observed the same sort 

 of coral in the Island of Skye, and in Gloucestershire, 

 proving that there was oiiginally a bed of it runring 

 through the kingdom. A part of a plesiosaurus and other 

 fossils were shown in a shed belonging to the quarryman, 



The excursionists proceeded — through a country highly 

 beautiful from its undulating features of hill and vale, and 

 equally interesting from its geological characteristics, the 

 hüls exhibiting in their upper part the white llas formation, 

 with red marl beneath — to Compton Dundon. Here the 

 ruins of a manor-house of the fourteenth Century were ex- 

 amined, and the church was vislted. !Mr. Freeman explained 

 the features of the sacred edifice, characterising it as a very 

 good little typical church, having nothing in it very extra- 

 ordinary, but still a few features that wei'e worthy of note. 

 It seemed to be pretty much of the same date, though 

 there had been a few alterations in the detail of the build- 

 ing. One or two ritual matters were worth noticing. 

 There was a stone screen that was evidently coeval with 

 the chanccl arch. It was not at all common to see a stone 

 screen in a parish church ; he only knew two or three 

 instances, and he did not remember one of such amazing 

 thickness as the present. Mr. Freeman then proceeded to 

 draw attention to what he conceived to be the curious 

 preparations in connectiou Avith the rood-loft, which ai> 

 peared to have been reached in an extraordinary way. 

 His idea on this matter will best be explained by stating 



