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ADDITIONAL EDITORIAL NOTES. 

 BLACKMORE VALE. 



1. BISHOP'S CATJNDLE. In Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 

 (Dec. 1910) Canon Mayo gave an interesting account of some carved 

 stones built into the fireplace of a cottage of Jacobean date. Last 

 year this cottage was pulled down, and the fragments carefully re- 

 moved to Sherborne by Mr. E. A. Rawlence, agent for the Castle Estate. 

 The stones prove to have formed the base of a handsome cross of the 

 15th century. Three of the principal faces bore representations of 

 scenes of the Passion and Resurrection, and on the angles were figures 

 in bold relief of the Evangelists, with their Apocalyptic symbols. 

 Portions of a plinth were also found bearing an inscription, which is 

 undecipherable. 



2. LOWER BUCKSHAW. To Mr. Rawlence we are also indebted for 

 a find of some geological, as well as archaeological, importance. In 

 digging for gravel in the bed of the brook which runs from Holnest 

 northwards and eastwards, two large oak-trees were found lying across 

 the stream in a bed of gravel at a depth of nearly 6ft. from the surface. 

 They were covered by a bed of blue clay, above which was a thicker 

 bed of yellowish clay and alluvial soil. Under one of the logs was 

 found the antler of a roe-deer, and close by a portion of an oak stake 

 appeared to have been driven into the ground at the same level. Dr. 

 Ord, of Bournemouth, has written an interesting paper on the geological 

 aspects of this discovery, which we hope may in due course be read to 

 the Club. 



LYME REGIS. 



ANCIENT ARCHWAY. In April a report was received from Mr. A. 

 C. G. Cameron, of Uplyme, that some ancient masonry had been 

 discovered in the cellar of one of the houses adjoining and abutting on 

 the Buddie Bridge. On examination it became fairly certain that 

 this work was part of a 12th century bridge of several arches, crossing 

 the river when the stream was much broader than it is at present. A 

 photograph showing the arch has been kindly given to us by the Rev. 

 Cecil Urquhart. It is to be hoped that the Lyme authorities will be 

 very careful, in carrying out the contemplated improvements to the 

 street, to preserve all such old work as may come to light. 



The present bridge consists of one arch of large span, and appears 

 to have been built (probably in the 14th century) when the bed of the 

 river was hewn out of the rock to an extra depth of 8ft. 



