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next visited. The mullions of some of the windows at the back 
of the house show a favourite local moulding, that at all events is 
Jacobean if not earlier. The party having returned to the 
Gloucester road a start was made for Monkswood. This is the 
second visit of the Field Club to these extensive works, their last 
visit being on October 2, 1894. Mr. Gilby was kind enough to 
walk round with the members and show the progress that had 
been made. The works are now so well advanced that it is 
hoped they will be completed in about a year’s time. The sides 
are being paved with blocks of concrete, beautifully fitted 
together, the compound being made from oolitic crushings mixed 
with Portland cement. Here the Rev. H. H. Winwood gave the 
members a short account of the geology of the valley, in which 
he said the site of the present works was formerly a lake, the 
foundation of which was blue lias clay, on this rested the peat 
bed, and this again was covered with the washings from the 
neighbouring hills forming the present surface soil. The land 
around shows landslips and a curious fault in the Oolite strata, 
but this has been gone into fully in his paper (read before the 
Club, 16th January, 1895). 
Some very interesting finds have been made from time to time 
at Monkswood. Recently the bones of the horse, goat, deer, and 
the upper half of the jaw of the wild boar. In addition to this a 
curious iron implement has been recently discovered, resembling 
the old-fashioned bill-hook, the handle of which is the tibia bone 
of some animal, As these matters are now exercising so much 
interest it would be a great advantage if the Corporation would 
allow the finds to be deposited, for the present at all events, in 
the Museum, so that visitors passing through Bath could have the 
advantage of a view of them. Mr. Gilby having been thanked 
for his kindness to the Club, the members proceeded up the hill 
to the Stone Quarry, from which the building stone for the works 
has been obtained. This interesting quarry was described in the 
last visit of the Club. The Bastard Oolite is here a mass of shells, 
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