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On the opposite side of the road to the Church, and at the 
back of the farm house now occupied by Mr. Gibbs stood until 
1887, a fine Medizval Barn, erected in the days when Northstoke 
belonged to the Abbey of Bath, and here the Bailiff, living in the 
adjoining house, many traces of which can still be seen in the 
present building, stored the harvest. 
The road now runs round the end of the buildings and forms a 
village street, but in ancient times it ran in a direct line from 
Lansdown on the lower side of the fortifications crowning the hill 
and instead of turning to the left passed on the north side of the 
‘Barn through the orchard belonging to Mr. Gibbs’s house into the 
lane leading to Bitton and with which it is in a direct line. 
On the waste piece of ground next the Church formed by the 
bend in the road above alluded to, were found some years ago 
what were supposed to be the remains of an old well, and this, 
perchance, was connected with the stone guttering with channel 
nine inches by three which was found running round the East end 
and part of the North side of the Barn, when the building was 
pulled down. This guttering appears to be Medieval and not 
Roman, as from what I can learn it was at a higher level than the 
Roman remains which were discovered to form part of the 
foundations of the Barn. Theseremains were inspected by the Rev. 
F. J. Poynton, rector of Kelston, from whose memoranda and also 
from some taken by Mr. Gibbs, I have compiled these notes. 
The entire length of the Building or Villa was about 102 feet 6 
inches, and the width between the walls was 11 feet 4 inches, the 
walls being each 2 feet 4 inches thick. The Eastern end was not 
clearly marked as the trace of Roman work was lost before 
reaching the end of the Barn on the South side, and somewhat 
earlier on the North side, but it did not probably extend farther 
_ in this direction as it was then four feet below the present road 
which is on thick clay. 
At the South End there were traces of a circular wall which 
may have been the foundation of a vestibule or portico as two 
