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This was fortunately found in the oflBce of a Solicitor, Mr. Kent, of Fakenham, 

 and presented to Hereford Cathedral by Mr. Lee Warner. 



Dinner was .served punctually at the Hop Pole, Bromyard. After dinner 

 the President (the Rev. William Elliot) read a paper on recent discoveries of 

 fragments of Roman pottery, amphorae, ancient querns, the skulls of at least 

 twenty goats, bones of the sheep, pig, horse, oxen, and, possibly, deer, found in a 

 disused well in the parish of Brinsop. Mr. G. H. Piper having made some 

 further observation upon the Camp at Wall Hills, Thornbury, proposed the 

 subscription of two guineas from the funds of our society towards exploring the 

 subterranean passage reported as existing in connection with the Camp ; which 

 proposition, on being put to the meeting, was carried. The President called the 

 attention of the members to the fact that the work, "The Birds of Herefordshire" 

 (the majority of papers relating to which had been read by the late Dr. Bull 

 before the members of the Club), now being compiled by Mrs. Bull as a memorial 

 to her late husband, would be published, uniform in size with the Woolhope 

 Transactions, stamped with the Woolhope seal, and would have a photograph of 

 Dr. Bull as a frontispiece. The price of the book would be 5s. ; all orders to 

 be given to Mrs Bull, direct, or to Messrs. .Takeman and Carver, the publishers. 



The carriages left Bromyard at five o'clock, and arrived at Hereford in time 

 for the evening trains in all directions. Subjoined is a list of the company 

 present:— Rev. Wm. Elliot, President ; Mr. G. H. Piper and Mr. F. Bainbridge, 

 Vice-Presidents ; Drs. T. A. Chapman and J. H. Wood, Revs. A. G. Jones, A. 

 Ley, D. Price, J. Tedman, H. T. Williamson, T. R. Maskew, Rector of Thorn- 

 bury, and W. Martin, Vicar of Bromyard ; Messrs. J. Carless, R. Clarke, P. C. 

 Cleasby, John Docking, S. Gilleat, G. H. Hadfield, P. Levason, J. Riley, with 

 Messrs. James B. Pilley, Assistant Secretary, and H. C. Moore, Honorary 

 Secretary ; and the following visitors :— Rev. H. L. Briihl, Mr. A. Gott, and Mr. 

 W. Pilley. 



POSTSCRIPT. 

 During the publication of this volume (1892) we have met in Voume I. of 

 The Hampshire Antiquary and Naturalist, a notice of an article on "Greek trade- 

 routes to Britain," by Prof. Wm. Ridgeway, which appeared in the first number 

 (for March, 1890) of Folk-lore ; (London, David Nutt) stating that :— " First the 

 Phoenicians voyaged to the Cassiterides direct . . . then the Phocean colony 

 at Massalia (Marseilles) opened up a route up the Loire, across Armorica to the 

 Isle of Wight. This brings us to the question of the identity of the Isle of Wight 

 (the Victis of the Romans) with the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus and the Mictis of 

 Timaeus or Pliny. That it is so seems incontrovertible, and any diflBculty in re- 

 conciling it is far less in the case of the Isle of Wight than in those of St. Michaels' 

 Mount or Thanet. The Isle of Wight route is ingeniously supported by the 

 discoveries of coins found along the lines of the two main routes described by 

 Strabo, by the Seine and by the Loire or Garonne. Coins of the type of those 

 of Massalia, dating back to about 450 B.C., have been found among the various 



