WINTER SESSION. 



The Second Meeting of the session was held on Wednesday, 

 February 1 8th, at 1,15 p.m., in the Reading Room of the County 

 IMuseum, Dorchester. 



Membership. — The seven candidates for membership pro- 

 posed at the last meeting were balloted for and elected, and 

 seven candidates were proposed for election at the next meeting. 



Alteration of Rules. — The Hon. Sec. proposed that the 

 words "or, in his absence, by the Chairman" be inserted in 

 Rule 3 after the words " shall be nominated." 



And that the words "with or without the help of a paid 

 Assistant Secretary or others" be substituted for the words 

 " with or without the help of the Assistant Secretary or others." 

 These alterations were approved by the meeting. 



Barrow-i?reaking. — In the matter of the demolition of a 

 barrow on Came Down, reported at the last meeting, the Hon. 

 Sec. stated he had corresponded on the subject with " The 

 National Trust for the Preservation of Places of Historic 

 Interest," and had received a letter from the Secretary, dated 

 February loth, stating that he had duly written to the Countess 

 of Portarlington with regard to the destruction of the barrow. 



Re-Discovery of Roman Remains at Fifehead. — The 

 Hon. Sec. stated that, having heard that some Roman remains 

 had been found at Fifehead, he wrote to Major J. K. D. Wing- 

 field Digby, M.P., the owner of the property, asking for 

 information about the find. He had received a letter in reply 

 stating that the tesselated pavement was first found 15 years ago, 

 when a drawing was made of it, which is now in the Dorset 

 Museum, The pavement was covered in again and the ground 

 made good, and the field had since been cultivated until this 

 year, when a successful attempt was made to rediscover it. It 

 was found about a foot or 15 inches below the surface. Louis 

 Cole began digging too far down the field, and, in trenching, 

 opened up a large quantity of fragments of paving tiles (some in 

 $ilu), pottery, roofing slabs, &c., and several parts of foundations 



