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clouds rolled by. Generally water was to be had close at hand 

 or could be temporarily obtained from the rainfall or dew ponds, 

 as in Wiltshire. These camps were in existence when the Romans 

 came, and were of course adapted and occupied by them as good 

 strategical points. Continuing along the W. side, the contour of 

 the ground was seen to have been much altered by the ancient 

 quarrying ; the Eomans and others seem to have gradually worked 

 the stone back from the W, face, throwing up the "tips" as 

 they went eastward and in some places obliterating the ancient 

 vallum. The heat of the sun taxing the powers of some of the 

 members a cross cut over the broken-up ground was made 

 to the N.E. side, and the much needed lunch, brought in the 

 breaks, having refreshed them for the remaining portion of the 

 day's work, the "Frying Pan" was the next object. This, an 

 undoubted portion of Roman adaptation, is situated at the N.E. 

 point of the hill, and was probably originally an amphitheatre ; 

 the scene of Roman military agitation, as in latter days it has been 

 utilized by arch agitators of the bucolic stamp. Many unfinished 

 Roman swords, coins chiefly of the Antonine period, one 50 years 

 later, and fibulae have been found; also a curious row of holed 

 stones existed close at hand in situ, but during the last ten 

 years these have nearly all disappeared. One still remains 

 much broken away, but what their use was is doubt- 

 ful. Some think they were used for the purpose of tether- 

 ing horses. The hill having been both geologically and 

 archaeological examined, it now remained to make a steep and 

 rapid descent to the church of Stoke-sub-Hamdon below, where the 

 Vicar, the Rev. W. J. Rowland, was kindly ready to receive the 

 members in his churchyard and point out the peculiarities of his 

 most interesting church. Proceeding first of all round the out- 

 side, attention was directed to some Early English work on the N. 

 wall of the nave, the meaning of which it was not easy to under- 

 stand. Over this, on the same side, was a good specimen of an 

 Early Norman narrow-lighted window, with grotesque carving in 



