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The Rev. H, H. Winwood, Vice-President, thanked the reader 
for his excellent paper on behalf of those present, and stated that 
these Carnac Alignments were indubitably of the polished stone 
age, although it was not yet possible to assign to their origin an 
exact meaning, whether they were places of sepulture, public 
meeting or worship. The sculptures and ornamentation in lines 
and circles on the Carnac Stones were of a very rude type, but 
one was an axe of more advanced form at Gavr Inis. 
At a meeting of the Bath Antiquarian Field Club, held at the 
Institution on February 17th, the President, Canon Ellacombe 
presiding, a paper was read by Mr. Norton Tompkins on “ Bath 
Thermal Springs and their Mineral Properties.” It will be 
remembered that Mr. Tompkins read a paper before the Field 
Club in May, 1894, on “ Bath Thermal Springs, their Source and 
Origin.” He then endeavoured to show that the water originates 
near the village of Downhead, Mendip, where it is seen pouring in 
large quantities into a series of eight swallet holes. These holes 
mark the line of the southern extremity of the great Clandown 
fault which intersects the Mendip anticlinal, passing close to the 
Igneous dyke discovered by a celebrated Bath geologist, the late 
Mr. C. Moore, in 1867. That the fault strikes into the centre 
of the Radstock Coal Basin, as far as Timsbury, where it intersects 
other arterial faults which come in the direction of Bath. He 
also contended that these faults being of considerable magnitude, 
having in the first instance from six to 700ft. downthrow west, 
and the second a downthrow south 600ft. That these faults must 
of necessity descend to the source of the disturbance passing 
through the Carboniferous Limestone a stratum of solid rock 
2,000ft thick at the base of the Radstock Coal Basin, and as the 
limestone rises to within 200ft. of the surface underneath Bath, 
the water following the disturbance in the limestone rises through 
the 200ft. of newer deposit to the Springs at the Baths. 
After a resumé of the above facts Mr. Tompkins proceeded with 
the subject of his second paper, ‘‘The Thermal and Mineral 
