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which it was agreed at the last Annual Meeting that the Committee should have prepared. Randworth and Fritton Screens have been accurately and beautifully copied by Mr. Winter, and that at Barton Turf is in a forward state. It will now be the duty of the Committee to arrange for the best method of publishing an instalment of them.

There have not been any discoveries of antiquarian interest reported to the Committee, or ancient relics exhibited, which require notice here: if we except the finding of some Mural Paintings in Sporle Church, near Swaffham, the subjects of which have not been ascertained.

The Annual Excursion of the Members for the past year was held at Loddon and its neighbourhood, where the Society was received with great kindness and hospitality at Langley Park, by Sir Thomas Beauchamp, and made visits of much interest to Heckingham, Norton, Hales, &c. There is the promise in the ensuing year of an Excursion of a highly instructive kind, to visit the British and other early remains, which have not yet been investigated as they deserve, in the neighbourhood north of Brandon.

The following Members of the Committee go off in rotation to-day: The Rev. G. H. Dashwood, T. Jeckell, Esq., the Rev. 'S. W. King, R. M. Phipson, Esq., the Rev. S. Titlow, the Rev. E. T. Yates, and are eligible for re-election.

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Audited by me, 10th Jan. 1866, J. H. DRUERY.

NORFOLK AND NORWICH

Archæological Society.

REPORT FOR 1866.

READ FEBRUARY 6TH, 1867.

IN giving to the Members of this Society a brief Report of its work in the past year, one of the principal subjects to be referred to is the progress of its promised publication of drawings of the Randworth Screen. It was agreed, as the Members will recollect, that those beautiful and valuable illustrations should be printed in lithography by the artist who executed them,-Mr. Winter of Norwich-in twentyeight subjects in outline, and one coloured facsimile. After the contract with that gentleman was entered into, he proceeded with much dispatch and ability to draw them on the stones, and by September last as many as twenty were finished, and their beauty and accuracy is entirely to the satisfaction of the Committee. They deeply regret to say, however, that at this point the work was unavoidably stopped by the serious illness of Mr. Winter, whose unremitting attention and excess of labour upon it proved too great a strain upon his health. Had it not been for this misfortune the publication might already have been in the hands of the Members. The Committee can only hope that before long he will be restored to health and be able to resume his work. In these circumstances they must beg the forbearance of the

Members, and are sure that Mr. Winter has their sympathy and sincere wishes for his recovery.

The Society held two Excursion Meetings in the past year, the first from Brandon to visit the very curious British dwellings at Grimes' Graves in the parish of Weeting, Weeting Church and Castle, the early Tower at Cranwich, the fine Easter Sepulchre at Northwold, and the large and very valuable Museum of Egyptian and other Antiquities at Didlington Hall, where the kindness and hospitality of Mr. Tyssen-Amhurst, High Sheriff for the year, as well as that of Mr. W. Angerstein at Weeting, demand our best acknowledgments. The second Excursion took place in the neighbourhood of Long Stratton, when visits were paid to interesting churches, &c., at Tasburgh, Fritton, Shelton, Hardwick, Stratton, Wacton, and Forncett, and every facility was afforded by the clergy and others for an agreeable and instructive day.

Perhaps the most important discovery of the year in our county has been that of the Flint Celts in the drift at Thetford. Our Treasurer has already exhibited specimens of them, and the "find" has attracted much attention from eminent geologists and archæologists, as they are of the same primæval type as those found at Hoxne, and in the valley of the Somme.

The frequency of church restoration at the present day causes every year further disclosures of Mural Paintings on the walls. The principal example of these brought to our notice this year has been those at Sporle near Swaffham, where a curious series is depicted relating the history of S. Catharine of Alexandria. Careful drawings of them have been made by Mr. Winter, at the expense of the Society of Antiquaries, the subject having been laid before that body by Mr. Carthew. Other wall decorations have been reported from Hethersett by our President, and from Brunstead by Mr. Gunn.

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