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members of the Field Club at some length, explaining the compo- 
sition of the hard doleritic rock, and many of the members 
provided themselves with specimens. It is not unlike the Dhu 
stone of the Titterstone Clee Hillin Shropshire, also much quarried 
for road metal, and the external surfaces of the joints are coloured 
in various hues by infiltrations of mineral matters. 
At the close of the learned Vice-President’s remarks the brakes 
were again mounted, and a short drive brought within sight the 
signboard of the Knatchbull Arms at Stoke S. Michael, commonly 
called Stoke Lane. There a welcome repast met the party, after 
doing full justice to which the return drive by Old Down was 
taken to Shepton Mallet, and thence a train brought the whole 
_ party back to Bath before six o’clock, the weather having been 
everything that it should be for a geological excursion. 
Abbey Dore and Hereford, June 11th’ and 12th, 1895.—Twelve 
members of the Field Club left Bath on Tuesday, June 11th, by 
the 8.34 a.m. train on the Great Western Railway, and changing 
at Bristol and Pontypool road, arrived punctually at the little 
Herefordshire village of Pontrilas, which lies at the mouth of the 
Golden Valley, and at the junction of three tributaries to the 
Usk. After viewing the charming old Manor House, seventeen 
years ago known so well to anglers as the Scudamore Arms Hotel, 
now a private residence, luncheon was duly appreciated at the 
Village Hotel, which offered a fine and airy hall for the repast in 
the large Court-room of the local “ Foresters.” At 1.45 p.m. a 
start was made in such vehicles as the Pontrilas Hotel afforded, 
i.¢., four pair-wheel gigs, to the Abbey of Dore, situated in a 
sequestered nook of the Golden Valley 24 miles distant. Here 
the Rev. A. Phillips, Vicar, met the Field Club, and conducted 
the members first to view the exterior of the building, which 
consists in its restored portion of a North and South Transept 94 
feet from end to end, a Chancel 55 feet in length now used as the 
Parish Church, North and South Aisles to the same and an 
Ambulatory tothe East. A massive tower stands in the angle of 
