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encircle the hut. Small bones of sheep had just been found, 

 and they would notice how black they became stained by the 

 peat — excellently preserved. The relics from the clay were not 

 nearly so well preserved as those from the peat. Nearly all the 

 material passed through the hands of the men, who broke up the 

 lumps in the hope of finding something, and they saw them 

 picking out things constantly. He learnt from Mr. BuUeid that 

 the finds already found included four weaving-combs, two bronze 

 spiral finger-rings, a spindle-whorl, and ornamented pottery — a 

 fairly good result from a cutting of that size. By degrees the 

 whole of that mound would be uncovered, to expose the different 

 floors of clay in the hut. All the clay had been brought to the 

 sites of the huts from clay-pits some little distance away. The 

 floors always sloped in all directions from the centre of the 

 hut, but not generally so much as in the dwelUng then under 

 obser%'ation. 



The President said that the Club were fortunate in having 

 come to the village at the time when the excavation was in 

 progress. He repeated their gratitude to ]\Ir. Gray for his 

 kindness, and for the valuable and interesting information which 

 he had given them. 



I\Ir. Gray, before the party left, showed a weaving-comb found 

 that morning — the fifth discovered on that spot and showing that 

 the people inhabiting that dwelling were accustomed to weaving. 

 It was used for pressing the horizontal threads or weft down, 

 through the vertical threads or woof. In the Wilton carpet 

 factor}^ Salisbury, one could see iron combs of the same t}-pe 

 being used at the present day. 



Returning to the village of INIeare the party visited the parish 

 church, where Mr. Alfred Pope, author of "The Old Stone 

 Crosses of Dorset," said a few words about the i6th Century 

 cross which has been removed to the churchyard and restored. 

 Then, by the courtesy of the tenant, they went over the old 

 house close by, which is said to have been the country house of 

 the Abbot of Glastonbur}-, a car\'ed stone figure of whom, in full 

 canonicals, appears as a finial over the porch. The windows in 



