there betwixt the Severn and the Wye : they possessed it not afterwards." It 

 is remarkable, too, that the only relic found about this camp should have 

 been a golden coronet adorned with precious stones, which was dug up in 1650, 

 in the garden of a cottage, at the outer edge of the intrenchment near the 

 Wind's Point. This coronet passed from hand to band, and the issue of it was 

 that it was sold for about £2,500. Though the coronet was broken up and its 

 value realized, the particulars given respecting it from a MS. in the library of 

 Jesus College, Oxford, seem to place the finding of the ornament beyond any 

 doubt. One Thomas Tailer, of Colwall, is said to have found it, and he parted 

 with it for the inadequate sum of £37 to a jeweller of Gloucester, who again 

 sold the crown to a London jeweller, in Lombard-street, who discovered its value. 

 Now it is evident that no rude Silurian prince in pre-Roman times could have 

 been the owner of such a coronet as that; but it is recorded in Caradoc's 

 History of the Princes of Wales, that Eoderic and his sons, who were Welsh 

 princes, each wore on their helmets a coronet of gold inlaid with precious 

 stones. This was in the 9th century, and it is therefore not improbable that a 

 similar coronet may have been worn by Margadad in the following century. As 

 the Britons were finally dispossessed of the district between Severn and Wye 

 in his time, it is not improbable that he or some other prince of his race, in 

 contending against the Saxons, lost his crown or his life on this spot, which 

 was assuredly battle-ground, or lost or flung the crown away in his flight after 

 being here defeated. I have therefore no hesitation in assigning the defence 

 of this fortress to the Britons, though of course it is impossible to say the 

 exact date when the trenches of this formidable work were made. The want 

 of a historian or a poet is felt in evei-y such case of doubtfvd designation. The 

 magic pen of the writer raises the humblest name into the regions of fame and 

 romance, while without its aid names and actions, however important and 

 brilliant dissolve into airy nothing like the mists of morning on these hills. 

 Stm, there is much instruction to be derived from a contemplation of the mighty 

 vallum and extensive trenches of this castrametation, though mystery so cloaks 

 the actors in the dim arena that they cannot be personified with absolute 

 certainty, and though learned archaeologists may take antagonistic views. In. 

 the language of Sir Walter Scott, indeed, we are left to muse— 



Of ancient deeds so long forgot ; 

 Of feuds wliuse memory is nvt ; 

 Of manners ioDg since cliatig d and gone ; 

 Of chiefs who under their gray stone 

 So long had slept, that fickle Fame 

 Had blotted from her rolls their name, 

 And twin'd round some new minion s head 

 The fading wreath for which they bled. 



The addi-ess was received with applause. 



Mr. Lee, of Caerleon, gave a description of a very similar camp which 

 he had visited at Clermont, in France, and exhibited a sketch made on the 

 spot. In reference to the theories which had been put forth as to the camp, 



