x | SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



SECOND WINTER MEETING. 

 Tuesday, IQth February, 1915. 



In accordance with the resolution passed on the 8th 

 December last, the meeting assembled at the Museum at 

 12.45. Mr. Nelson Richardson presided, and among those 

 who attended were the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Editor, 

 Mr. Alfred Pope, and Canon Fletcher. 



Two candidates for membership were elected by ballot, 

 and one nomination for a future election was announced. 



The Rev. Herbert Pentin presented the report of the 

 Committee on Ancient Earthworks and Fortified Enclosures, 

 as read at the congress of Archajological Societies on 26th 

 June, 1914. Copies of the report had been disbributed to 

 the members of the Field Club. Mr. Pentin remarked that 

 no places in Dorset were mentioned under the heading 

 " Destruction," which was very satisfactory, and the 

 President added that the Club was grateful to Sir Edward 

 Hulse for taking steps to prevent the digging of chalk from 

 the vallum of Bokerly Dyke. 



Mr. Pentin then alluded to the receipt of a report made 

 to the two Archbishops by the Ancient Monuments (Churches) 

 Committee of the Ecclesiastical Commission. They desired 

 to know what action the Field Club and other similar bodies 

 were taking for the protection of the fabric of churches and 

 their objects of interest, and to emphasise the necessity of 

 obtaining a faculty before making any change. 



A letter was read from Lieutenant G. O'Hanlon, 6th 



ice) battalion Dorset regiment, informing the Hon. 



1 ;u y that a mass of ancient pottery had been found when 



a trench was dug at Worgret camp, near Wareham. The 



sherds were lying on the river gravel, three feet below the 



Mirface, and it was thought that they indicated the site of 



