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Report of the Council, 1011. 



In presenting its Report for the year 1911 the Council 

 has much pleasure in stating that the work of the Society has 

 been successfully carried out on its usual lines. In addition 

 to the indoor meetings a number of excursions have been 

 made to different parts of the island. These were, as a rule, 

 well attended, and much interesting work was done, though 

 the hope (raised by the success of the Jersey people in this 

 direction) of finding evidence of human occupation in neo- 

 lithic times in some of the caves on the south coast was not 

 realized. An account of the geological work done during the 

 year will be found elsewhere in this volume. 



Mr. J. Hocart having kindly offered to conduct the mem- 

 bersi of the Society and friends to various points of interest 

 in the neighbourhood of_ L'Ancresse and Fort Doyle, two 

 excursions were organised to visit them. On the first occasion 

 an ancient subterranean chamber at Mont diet, L'An- 

 cresse, was visited. This was discovered some years ago 

 by Mr. Hocart, and in it were found fragments of a two- 

 handled vase of unglazed pottery. This is now in the 

 Museum of the Guille-Alles Library. These fragments 

 have recently been submitted to Mr. Reginald Smith, of the 

 British Museum, and, in his opinion, they are probably 

 mediaeval, and parts of a cooking-pot, but the two handles and 

 the thinness of the pottery are unusual in such vessels of that 

 period. The chamber itself is bottle-shaped, and excavated 

 on the side of the hill. Its dimensions are as follows : — 

 Depth, 1 8 feet ; chamber, 8 feet deep and 3 feet 8 inches in 

 diameter ; neck or vertical shaft leading to chamber, 10 feet 

 deep, with a diameter of 18 to 20 inches. The sides of both 

 chamber and shaft are lined with dry masonry of water-worn 

 stones. Its use is at present undetermined. The party then 

 visited La Chaise au Pretre at Creve Coeur, and thence pro- 

 ceeded to Fort Doyle. 



On September 13 an excursion was made to the Houmet 

 Paradis, near Bordeaux Harbour, where Mr. Hocart pointed 

 out the remains of an eperquerie, or ancient fish-drying house, 

 The party then visited the remains of the foundation of the 

 Chapel of St. Magloire in the neighbourhood. Also the site 

 of La Croix Bernard. On September 30 the Society visited 

 the Manor House of Anneville, a short history of which was 

 given by the President (vide paper by the President, Colonel 

 de Guerin, on "Feudalism in Guernsey," Transactions, 1909, 

 page 58). The old manor house is now used as a stable. 



