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adjoining the road leading to Kilmersdon. The parish of 
Radstock is intersected by six valleys which radiate from the 
centre of the town, and the field in question, which seems at one 
time to have been part of the Huish Common, forms a 
promontory at the junction of the Charlton and Haydon valleys, 
the new quarry being 1,320 yards to the South-West of the 
Tyning Quarry already described. 
On the summit of this promontory, overlooking the two valleys 
and the adjoining country, stands a Tumulus of no great size but 
unmistakable in its character, affording evidence of an Ancient 
British or Roman settlement in the immediate locality. 
It has the appearance of having been opened, possibly by 
Skinner, of Camerton, who devoted much time and research to 
the investigation of Roman Antiquities in this locality, but if — 
opened, no record of its contents appears to have been kept. 
Skirting the lower side of this field there are the appearances of 
earthworks, which are deserving of attention. So far as the 
writer is aware they have never been recognised as such, but they 
have every appearance of having formed part of some ancient 
fortification. There would seem to have been two lines of 
earthwork in the lower or North-East corner of the field, 
diminishing to one bank higher up, and although these 
earthworks correspond with the line of a cart track which 
formerly crossed the common towards Kilmersdon, before the 
present road was made, they are evidently not mere road banks 
but something of more ancient date. 
Another well-defined line of earthwork forming nearly a right 
angle with the first, lies on the North side of the Jubilee field 
and just over the hedge which separates it from the adjoining 
field. 
The accompanying diagrams will explain the locality in 
question on which the quarry is marked A. the Tumulus B. 
and the supposed fortifications C. and D. respectively, the distance 
as the crow flies from this Tumulus to a much larger one 

