1914.] REPORTS. 117 



Report of the Antiquarian Section for 1914, 



There have been no discoveries of great importance to 

 record during the year. 



During the excavation of the roadway, necessitated by 

 the alterations to Church Hill, a conduit was met with 

 which proved on examination to have been in bygone times 

 the passage for the water from one of the streams in 

 Fountain Street to the pump at the eastern end of the Town 

 Church. It was, however, dry, and had apparently not been 

 in use for many years. 



During the military operations which took place owing 

 to the outbreak of war, many trenches were dug on FAncresse 

 Common, and it was possible that some discoveries of anti- 

 quarian interest might be met with, and a careful watch was 

 kept for any hitherto unknown dolmen or kists, but none have 

 up to the present been found. 



The Society of Antiquaries of London has been good 

 enough to forward to our Society its report on the relics 

 found in 1913 in the belfry of St. Sampson's Church, and 

 permission has been obtained for our Society to publish in 

 its Transactions this report and also to reproduce the excel- 

 lent photographs which accompany it. The report (which 

 follows) was read and the photographs were handed round 

 for inspection at the usual meeting on the 18th November. 



S. Carey Curtis, 

 Hon. Sec. Antiquarian Section. 



[From the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Nov. 27, 1913^] 



The Rev. William Taylor, Rector of St. Sampson's, Guernsey, 

 sent for exhibition a number of latten objects lately discovered in 

 St. Sampson's Church, on which the Secretary made the following 

 remarks : 



"We have to thank our local Secretary, Dr. Marett, for the 

 opportunity of seeing- the very interesting group of latten objects 

 exhibited here to-night by the Rev. William Taylor, Rector of St. 

 Sampson's, Guernsey. 



They were found under the following circumstances on 20th 

 June, 1913. It had become necessary to rehang the bell; and the 

 plan adopted was to erect a steel frame whose footings should be 

 on a level, or thereabouts, with the crown of the stone vault of the 

 tower, the ground floor of which is used as a baptistery. The 

 haunches of the vault were found to be filled in with rubbly soil 

 nearly to the underside of the wooden floor of the bell-chamber, 

 and this soil was being cleared away, in order to put in concrete 

 footings for the bell-frame, when a loose stone was noticed in the 

 south wall of the tower. Its removal disclosed the entrance to a 

 small chamber in the wall, and in this chamber were found the 

 objects you now see- 



