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not able to say anything as to date (I should rather be disposed 

 to attribute it to a later period) to be seen at Bristol iu 

 the Chapter House, dug up when some repairs were being 

 done in the Cathedral there. It is really the slab of a stone 

 coffin, and upon it there is represented the figure of a man, 

 apparently Christ (as far as I can recollect, 1 have not seen it 

 for a great number of years), delivering a soul, represented 

 by a little figure, out of the mouth of the Dragon. This stone is 

 now in the vestry within the Chapter. You go through the 

 Chapter House to a door at one corner of the room and into 

 the vestry, and there this stone is walled up and presents 

 itself as a picture over the fire-place. Another kind of 

 Saxon remains which exist in this country very numerously 

 are the earthen banks made by the Saxons. Now there are 

 earthen banks which it may be doubted whether they were 

 made by the Saxons or not. The Wansdyke may be a Saxon 

 earth work, or it may not, I cannot pretend to say, but there 

 are certain earth works of which there is no doubt that 

 they are Saxon, and these are the earth works which represent 

 the ground plan of the old Saxon gentleman's house, the Thane's 

 house, the house of the landlord, the man of property. I 

 think that there is probably one of these mounds at English- 

 combe. I do not speak of a bit of Wansdyke, which runs through 

 Englishcombe, but I speak of a couple of concentric circles which 

 are to be seen near the village of Englishcombe. I think they 

 are the remains of a fortified house. The first and chief idea of 

 fortification, (perhaps the feature of Saxon times that possesses 

 most durability), was to make an earthen bank. 



Around the group of buildings of which a noble residence 

 consisted, was carried a bank and ditch, and at a point in this 

 enceinte a conical mound was raised, of comparatively high 

 elevation, with a flat top, on which was erected the watch-tower 

 which constituted the citadel of the domestic fortress ; I am 

 persuaded there are relics of many such still capable of being 



