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Winchester House. A head of bos longifrons, a tooth of a wolf, 
and some vertebra have also been discovered during the excava- 
tions. The Members of the Field Club heartily thanked Mr. 
Gilby for his explanation of all the works, and returned to Bath 
well pleased with their visit to Monkswood. 
Cranmore and Leigh-on-Mendip, October 16, 1894.—Braving a 
biting north wind and low thermometer, eighteen Members 
started from the Great Western Station by the 10.18 a.m. train, 
under the personal conduct of Mr. Norton Tompkins. The object 
of this excursion to the Mendips was to receive from Mr. 
Tompkins a proof in the examination of the geological features of 
the district, of the thesis laid down by him in a Paper read before 
the Field Club on May 16th, 1894, on the origin of the Bath 
hot waters, and the danger of their diminishing considerably in 
outflow, if the waters which rise on the summit of the Mendip 
range and disappear in the numerous “ swallet holes” which follow 
the line of the ‘“ Clandown fault,” are drawn upon to supply 
Radstock and other places. The theory of Mr. Tompkins is that 
this Clandown fault is continued beneath all the coal series, New 
Red, Lias, and Oolite in a direct line to Bath, below which it passes 
at a depth of 300 feet. The waters it swallows at its beginning 
on the Mendips follow its course among the igneous rocks, whose 
vent at Beacon Hill on the Mendips caused this disturbance in 
the strata, and obtaining their supply of minerals and heat in the 
bowels of the earth, rise to the surface at Bath and Clifton. This 
theory is vehemently opposed by the most talented local geolo- 
gists, but will hold good until a better is suggested by themselves 
or others. The saloon carriage placed at the disposal of the Field 
Club by the Great Western Company deposited the party at West 
Cranmore at 12,20, and a start was made for the summit of the 
Mendips. A visit was first paid “en route” to the Church of St. 
Bartholomew with Early English tower, pinnacled and bearing 
many masons’ marks. The beautiful building stone from 
Doulting, the mother parish, which supplied the material for this 
