THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. liii. 



The PEESIDENT said that they were much indebted to Captain 

 Acland for his interesting notes and for his help to the Field 

 Club on many .occasions. Mr. ALFRED POPE remarked that he 

 would like to see the two organisations, the Club and the 

 Museum, draw still closer together, just as the Somerset 

 Archaeological Society and the Museum at Taunton formed 

 one body. 



Mr. C. S. PRIDEAUX, as secretary of the Earthworks 

 Sectional Committee, reported that 



Since the last annual meeting of the club your committee has met 

 twice. It was decided to deal with single parishes in succession by each 

 two members of the committee of ten, in order if possible to survey five 

 parishes each year. The Field Club has supplied the necessary Gin. 

 Ordnance maps, which are therefore the property of the club, and will 

 be sent to the secretary when the survey is completed. We are glad 

 to report that a considerable amount of useful work has been done. But 

 at the present rate of progress it will be 50 years at least before the 

 whole county will be finished. We therefore want more help, and shall 

 be glad of volunteers. It has been decided to discontinue the excava- 

 tions at Maumbury Rings at present ; but the Dewlish Elephant Trench 

 will be further explored in June, a special search being made for possible 

 traces of early man and, judging from the large amount of corres- 

 pondence received, we hope to see many visitors at Dewlish. The 

 committee trust that members of this club will not only use their 

 personal influence in preventing the destruction of earthworks, &c., 

 but also report all such cases. 



The corresponding secretary of the Numismatic Sectional 

 Committee, Mr. HENRY SYMONDS, mentioned that the one 

 find brought under his notice had occurred in the summer 

 of 1913 at an excavation near the southern end of South 

 Street, Dorchester, where a few third-brass coins of the 

 Constantinian period came to light. The County Museum 

 had received the undistributed portion of the Roman coins 

 found at Puncknoll about 1850, which had been already 

 referred to in the Curator's notes (supra). 



The PRESIDENT announced that the Cecil medal and prize 

 for the years 1913-14 had been awarded to Mr. George Nicolson, 

 of Stavordale Road, Weymouth, for his essay on " The 



