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lamented frieml and founder was the late Mr. BI. J. Scobie ; and it is 3 

 coincidence that in opening Domesday Book for the pvu-pose of preparing an 

 essay for the meeting of this Club I should find that a Norman lord of the 

 same name held Kisbury eight hundred years ago (applause). 



Mr. John Llotd said that when they were on the Herefordshire Beacon, 

 at Malvern Hills, they were told that the approach was on the westward side, 

 and that the eastward side was the strongest, because the attack was expected 

 from that side. Now they were told, in reference to Risbury, that the approach 

 was on the eastward side, because the attack was expected from the westward ; 

 but he thought they had not seen anything at the camp to establish that view, 

 and therefore, in arriving at the conclusion advanced by Mr. Edmunds the 

 point should be well weighed. The saUy port was certainly on the westward 

 side, and on that side the defences were very strong. He did not see why 

 the attack should be expected from the east in one case, and from the west in 

 the other. 



Mr. Edmunds said that at Malvern the only road across the hills came 

 from the N.E. It was manifest, therefore, that an enemy, unless he came out of 

 Wales, must come that way : hence the strong part of the campwas against that 

 road. There was a very steep ascent, and triple fortiiications confronted them 

 at the summit. So late as 924, in the time of Athelstan, Malvern was a waste 

 — a royal chase on one side, and an episcopal chase on the other— with only a few 

 huts scattered about. Even 200 years later, when that good man Aldwin, the 

 Monk of Worcester, proposed to go to Palestine as a missionary, and was wisely 

 told by his Bishop— the last Saxon bishop of Worcester — that he would find 

 plenty of heathens at home, he selected Malvern as the scene of his labours, 

 because it was a wild, savage spot, the few inhabitants of which were still in a 

 state of heathenism. 



Mr. Llotd : IMr. Lees argued that Malvern must be a British camp, 

 because it is strongest on the eastward side ; you seem to say that Kisbury 

 must be a British camp because it is strongest on the westward side. 



Mr. CuKLEY, C.E., remarked that the earthworks at Risbury were 

 admirably constructed, and if they had to be executed at the present day, not- 

 withstanding all our facilities, would cost a very considerable sum. 



Mr. Edmunds : At Malvern the enemy could come only from the N.E. ; 

 at Risbury he must have come from the opposite side, the eastern district being 

 a wild country, and then probably a trackless waste, 



Mr. James Davies said he wished that Mr. Edmunds's notes had been 

 read at the locus in quo, as he would then have been able to have pointed out to 

 the Club the supposed Roman road, running near Risbury. The subject of this 

 road was not altogether new to him (Mr. Davies), as many years ago Mr. Cherry, 



