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WPoolhoye Paturaliste’ Stilf Club, 
The Fourth Field Meeting was held at Brown Clee on Friday, 25th 
August, having been postponed from Friday, 18th (see resolution passed at the 
last meeting on 17th July). Present : Dr. Chapman (President), James Rankin, 
Esq., Rev. A. E. Hornby, G. H. Lin, Esq., Capt. Doughty, Major Bush, Mr. 
Horne, Mr. O. Shellard, Rev. G. H. Clay, Mr. Cocking, Mr. J. T. Owen Fowler, 
Mr. Jos. Graves, Rev. Philip Norris, Mr. T. C. Paris, Mr. G. H. Piper, Mr. A. 
Purchas, Rev. Stephen Thackwell, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Arthur Thompson, Miss 
Hodgson, Rey. Albert Clowes, Rev. John Sempson, Mr. E. Y. Steele, and Mr, 
John Kent. 
On the arrival of the party at Ludlow they proceeded in carriages to Clee 
St. Margaret’s, where they were met by Rey. Albert Clowes, who conducted them 
to his church, and from thence to the Roman Camp of Nordy Bank (on which he 
read a short paper), and the British remains on Abdon Burf ; afterwards passed 
over the Brown Clee and down through the Burwarton pleasure grounds, by the 
kind permission of Viscount Boyne, to the village of Burwarton, where the old 
and new churches were visited. 
They afterward dined at the Boyne Arms Inn, After dinner Mr. Rankin 
read a paper on the ‘‘ Formation of Soils.” 
NORDY BANK ON THE BROWN CLEE. 
The following remarks I have collected from a paper written in 1873, for 
the Severn Valley Naturalists’ Field Club, by a friend of mine, the Rev. Augustus 
Thursby-Pelham, a son of the lord of this manor. 
Nordy Bank still stands bare, as when the Roman camp was formed here 
more than 1,800 years ago. It has not been destroyed by the plough, nor has it 
been hidden by timber like Norton Camp, which had even a more commanding 
position above the present Craven Arms. And as the sheep now grazing here 
symbolise peace, so was this Roman camp formed for the furtherance of peace 
rather than of war. Nordy Bank was most probably one of the camps which 
Ostorius Scapula, the Roman Proproctor,in Britain (A.p. 50), established between 
the Avon and the Severn. Certain British tribes, under Caractacus or Caradoc, 
were at that time in this part of the country in open revolt against the Romans. 
After their defeat they gave much trouble to their conquerors, while living among 
their native woods and marshes. It was under these circumstances that the 
Roman General formed stationary camps in commanding positions, such as this is. 
This particular camp was of such importance that it was connected with 
Uriconium by a paved military road, part of which is still in existence under the 
