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consideration. Although he has had the pleasure of contributing 
a series of papers to the Bath Field Club during the last thirty 
years, he has seldom ventured beyond the domain of Geology 
with which he is more immediately connected, and in one 
previous instance only has he come down to anything so recent 
as historic times, viz: in a paper on the Roman Road at Radstock 
which appeared in vol. iv. of the Proceedings. He makes no 
pretention, therefore, to any expert knowledge on the subject of 
Archeology with which the present paper deals, his only desire 
being to bring under the notice of the Members, and, if it is 
considered of sutticient importance, to place on record in the 
Proceedings, the facts connected with a discovery which may 
throw some light on the early history of the races which 
formerly inhabited the country around Bath. 
The scene of the discovery was a Lias quarry situated at 
Tyning Pit, Radstock, which is about half a mile to the East of 
the Radstock station, and in order to explain its Geological 
position, the attention of members is directed to a section of 
strata running North and South through Tyning Pit, which may 
be considered a typical section of the strata met with on the surface 
in this central area of the Somersetshire coal basin. It shews 
in the upper part of the section the Inferior Oolite, which occupies 
all the higher ground to the East of Radstock, extending from 
Clandown through Radstock, Braysdown and Peasedown towards 
Dunkerton and Wellow. It here presents the usual features, 
being a thick level bedded coarse grained Oolite stone, full of 
open joints and fissures through which the rainfall of the district 
quickly passes. Below this formation lies a series of Lias shales 
of considerable thickness with occasional layers of coarse stone, 
the shales having been used extensively here and elsewhere in 
brick making, and next in descending order comes the Lias 
quarry from which stone has been quarried for many years for 
local purposes. The Rev. H. H. Winwood, who has paid more 
attention to this department of Geology than the writer, can 

